Name: Ad Absurdum
Start: 2025-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-01-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Queen's Hall

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Orchestra

Conductor

Maxim Emelyanychev

Instrumentalist

Sergei Nakariakov

Trumpet

Ad Absurdum

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

The Queen's Hall

Glasgow

City Halls

Ad Absurdum: Tryst MacMillan (+3 More)

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Concert

Tryst

ad absurdum

Con Brio

Chamber Symphony

Joshua Dos

Approved

Music to raise a laugh, or certainly crack a smile, in the playful hands of charismatic SCO Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev.

Multi-award-winning trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov is one of today’s most brilliant musicians, but even he is put through his paces by the madcap virtuosity of Jörg Widmann’s thrilling whirlwind of a trumpet concerto, Ad Absurdum. The same composer plays affectionate games with Beethoven in his zany Con Brio, while American minimalist John Adams reimagines classic cartoon scores in his flamboyantly virtuosic Chamber Concerto.

The trad-inspired romantic liaison of Sir James MacMillan’s opening Tryst, premiered by the SCO in 1989, provides a heartfelt, intimate contrast.

Maxim Emelyanychev Conductor
Sergei Nakariakov Trumpet
Jamie Pettinger DJ

English

Ad Absurdum by MacMillan, Widmann, Adams, From (2025/2025), Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev, The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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