Events for 24. March 2023 - 10. March 2023

Von der Veranstalterwebsite: “Tchaikovsky’s first true masterpiece”: Romeo and Juliet Dismissed by its composer as “a very noisy piece”, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture is likely his most oft-performed composition, a depiction in sound of Russia’s victory over Napoleon’s Grande Armée. Just as popular is the composer’s first musical rendering of a Shakespeare play, the fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet, with its musical portrayals of the young lovers’ passion against the background of their families’ seething mutual hatred. The radiant soprano Allison Pohl will take the stage for a bouquet of romantic songs by Richard Strauss. Two masterly explorations of classical forms will launch this wide-ranging program: Bach’s “Little” Fugue in g, and the haunting Passacaglia of Ljubica Marić (considered the most important of 20th century Serbian composers).

Solist: Eric Rizzo The concert will be livestreamed!

Conductor: Holly Mathieson Time to be announced

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Conductor: Jukka Untamala Time to be announced.

Conductor Fabien Gabel leads the DSO in a program of musical gems inspired by an original femme fatale and reminiscent of the French-influenced programs of former music director Paul Paray. Program: MEL BONIS: Salomé, Op. 100 ANDERS HILLBORG: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (US Premiere) RICHARD STRAUSS: "Salome's Dance" from Salome, Op. 54 FLORENT SCHMITT: La Tragedie de Salomé, Op. 50

Conductor Fabien Gabel leads the DSO in a program of musical gems inspired by an original femme fatale and reminiscent of the French-influenced programs of former music director Paul Paray. Program: MEL BONIS: Salomé, Op. 100 ANDERS HILLBORG: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (US Premiere) RICHARD STRAUSS: "Salome's Dance" from Salome, Op. 54 FLORENT SCHMITT: La Tragedie de Salomé, Op. 50

Programme Mozart The Marriage of Figaro – Overture, K. 492 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Anna Amalia Erwin and Elmire – Overture Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503 Performed by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Piano Gábor Takács-Nagy Music Director Manchester Camerata

Returning after two online incarnations, the festival pushes boundaries and blurs musical genres as international and local artists gather in Glasgow to explore what music can be. It is staged annually by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, is co-curated by its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell (Counterflows) with highlights broadcast on BBC Radio 3. A ground-breaking and somewhat overlooked figure in electronic and experimental music, Janet Beat only released her first commercial album ‘Pioneering Knob Twiddler’ last year. This year’s focus will celebrate her career, including a number of works for solo performer and electronics performed by BBC SSO Principals and soprano Juliet Fraser, as well as sets from Andie Brown, Sharon Gal and Ailie Ormston that echo Beat’s ever-questioning spirit.

Returning after two online incarnations, the festival pushes boundaries and blurs musical genres as international and local artists gather in Glasgow to explore what music can be. It is staged annually by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, is co-curated by its Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell (Counterflows) with highlights broadcast on BBC Radio 3. A ground-breaking and somewhat overlooked figure in electronic and experimental music, Janet Beat only released her first commercial album ‘Pioneering Knob Twiddler’ last year. This year’s focus will celebrate her career, including a number of works for solo performer and electronics performed by BBC SSO Principals and soprano Juliet Fraser, as well as sets from Andie Brown, Sharon Gal and Ailie Ormston that echo Beat’s ever-questioning spirit.

From the organiser's website:   Ladies' Night - "The Freedom of Women..." "The fact that one's miserable feminine nature is advanced every day, at every step of one's life, by the masters of creation, is a point that could drive one into a rage and thus deprive one of femininity, if it were not for the fact that this would make the evil worse" wrote Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn in a letter on 22 March 1829. One could almost think that Fanny Hensel was commenting on the concert practice of today's great stages. How many orchestral concert evenings in large houses, how many classical music programmes do we experience and have we experienced, whose programmes were and are as a matter of course shaped exclusively by a sequence of works by male composers. In return, we would like to create a concert evening with orchestral music by women only. We would like to make audible to our audience the wonderful works created by women composers in the 19th century, hidden behind Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, Berlioz etc.. Created against all odds by fathers, husbands, teachers, institutions and competitors. We would like to draw attention to the women composers who made interesting contributions ...