Name: BBC SSO In Inverness
Start: 2019-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Eden Court

Admin

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Dyrygent

Martyn Brabbins

Orchestra

Instrumentalista

Colin Currie

Marimba

BBC SSO In Inverness

Inverness

Wielka Brytania

Eden Court

Public

Concert

Koncert

Symphonies d'instruments à vent, K036

Now You Hear Me, Now You Don't, Op.102

Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, op. 93

Jnanakumar P

Approved

The Soviet authorities called Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony an “optimistic tragedy”, and if that sounds confusing, it’s probably because they were as astonished – and conflicted – as the rest of us by this most troubled of modern masterpieces. A massive, defiant act of self-assertion in the face of official tyranny, it’s a monumental climax to a concert that begins with the primary-coloured sonorities and timeless Russian rituals of Stravinsky’s 'Symphonies of wind instruments' and which also features Colin Currie, one of Scotland’s (and the world’s) finest percussionists in a performance of Kurt Schwertsik’s charming ‘marimba concerto’, premiered by Currie in 2009 and described by him then as “a true treat for the ears”.

6.45pm - Pre-Concert Talk (free to ticket-holders): conductor Martyn Brabbins and soloist Colin Currie in conversation with BBC SSO violinist Alex Gascoine.

The concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

English

Udział w spektaklu (Obsada & realizacja )

Ensemble