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BBC SSO 2024/25: Thursday Night Series - MacMillan’s ‘Concerto for Orchestra’

BBC SSO 2024/25: Thursday Night Series - MacMillan’s ‘Concerto for Orchestra’
Tickets
£31.00, £26.00, £21.00, £16.00, £14.00
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Dates and times
Thursday 20th Feb 2025
7:30PM
Age
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Book between 4 and 13 concerts in the BBC SSO’s Thursday Night Series and save up to 30%. Seniors are entitled to an extra 5% off. Your discount will be automatically applied at the online checkout.


Imagine this. A dazzling, thought-provoking spread of orchestral music from a new generation of Scottish talent.

When Sir James MacMillan speaks, the world takes notice – and at his Ayrshire community music festival The Cumnock Tryst, he’s helping a generation of composers to find their own individual voice. Tonight he conducts the first Scottish performance of Ghosts, his new concerto for orchestra. Judging from that title (and knowing MacMillan’s passionate belief in the communicative power of music), there’s every reason to expect a lot more than just a colourful workout for a full symphony orchestra. MacMillan introduces it himself, and also presents a dazzling, thought-provoking spread of new music from his younger colleagues at The Cumnock Tryst: a vibrant, typically generous celebration of the state of the art in Scottish classical music.

Matthew Grouse            Solos and Tuttis (c.8 mins) UK premiere 
                                           (commissioned  byThe Cumnock Tryst)

Gillian Walker                 Saat I De Blöd (salt in the blood) (c.5 mins)
                                           Jean Redpath’s Skippin' Barfit Thro' the Heather (c.5 mins)

Electra Perivolaris          A Wave Breaking (c.5 mins)

                                           A Forest Reawakens (c.5 mins)

Scott Lygate                    New Work for contrabass clarinet and orchestra (c.10mins)                                               World premiere 

Jay Capperauld                Inertia of a bona fide psychopath (c.10 mins) Scottish                                                          premiere 

INTERVAL

Michael Murray              Visions of the A- Frame (c.3 mins)

Sir James MacMillan      Concerto for Orchestra ‘Ghosts’ (c.25 mins) Scottish                                                             premiere

Scott Lygate                    contrabass clarinet

Sir James MacMillan     conductor


Tickets: £31, £26, £21, £16, £14

Concessions: £6.00 - Under 26s, Students, Registered Unemployed (proof of status. 50% Discount - Registered Disabled.


Booking Information

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