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Pekka Kuusisto

Violin

Conductor

Tenor

Allan Clayton

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Les illuminations

Glasgow

United Kingdom

Edinburgh

St Andrews

Les illuminations: Recital Various

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Hallucinations and wild imaginings: join Finnish musical pioneer Pekka Kuusisto on a journey into the strange and the wonderful in the second concert in his SCO residency.

With adulation for his Peter Grimes last year at London’s Royal Opera House, Allan Clayton is the most exciting British tenor of the moment – and one of our most celebrated interpreters of Britten. He’s the soloist amid the fanfares, parades and sensual visions of Britten’s larger-than-life Les Illuminations, settings of phantasmagorical verse by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

There’s more Gallic surrealism in the witty Songs for tenor, violin and drone by New York-based Nico Muhly, and Kuusisto is the soloist in the long-awaited Scottish premiere of his friend and colleague’s dashing, exuberant violin concerto Shrink. In between, Haydn’s final, grandest and most joyful Symphony, written expressly to surprise and delight.

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Les illuminations by Various, From (2023/2023), Conductor Pekka Kuusisto

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