Name: Afternoon Performance: Love, Death And Mozart
Start: 2020-03-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-03-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: City Halls

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Orchestra

Singer

Sergei Leiferkus

Voice

Afternoon Performance: Love, Death And Mozart

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Grand Hall

Public

Concert

Moz-art à la Haydn

Nozze Di Primavera

Suite No. 4, op. 61

Songs and Dances of Death (arr. Dmitri Shostakovich)

Jnanakumar P

Approved

**Change of Artist: Sergei Leiferkus replaces the previously advertised soloist, Elena Zhidkova.

Love, death and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Tchaikovsky didn’t just enjoy Mozart’s music: he practically worshipped it. “Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music”, he declared – and in his orchestral suite Mozartiana he chose four of his favourite Mozart pieces and simply drenched them in his own, unmistakable combination of uninhibited affection and glowing orchestral colour. It’s a rare treat in the concert hall, and the sweetest imaginable way to end a concert that begins with a luminous evocation of an Orkney wedding by the late – and much-missed – Martin Dalby, the Scottish composer and former Head of Music for BBC Scotland. As a powerful contrast, Martyn Brabbins links these two labours of love with two very different Russian rarities: Alfred Schnittke’s altogether more sardonic tribute to Mozart, and Mussorgsky’s ‘Songs and Dances of Death’. Don’t be misled by that morbid-sounding title: you’ll never hear anything more blackly comic – or a more entertaining showcase for a great voice.

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Afternoon Performance: Love, Death And Mozart by Schnittke, Dalby, Tchaikovsky, P. I., Mussorgsky, From (2020/2020), Conductor Martyn Brabbins, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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