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BBC SSO 2018-19 Season Events

Thu 26 Sep 2019
- 19:15
  Live Stream: Mahler & Bruch
  City Halls
  Watch live as the BBC SSO perform works by Mahler, Bruch & Czernowin.
Sun 23 Jun 2019
- 19:30
  St Magnus International Festival - Concert Three
  Pickaquoy Centre Arena
  Ben Gernon conducts the BBC SSO in works by Copland, Stravinsky, Maconchy, Joan Tower, Schmidt and Handel.
  Ben Gernon conducts the BBC SSO in works by Copland, Stravinsky, Maconchy, Joan Tower, Schmidt and Handel.
  Programme
  Aaron Copland
  Fanfare for the Common Man
  Igor Stravinsky
  Symphonies of Wind Instruments
  Elizabeth Maconchy
  Music for Woodwind and Brass
  Joan Tower
  Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No 1
  Ole Schmidt
  Hommage à Stravinsky
  George Frideric Handel
  Music for the Royal Fireworks
  Performers
  Ben Gernon
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Aaron Copland
  Igor Stravinsky
  Elizabeth Maconchy
  Joan Tower
  Ole Schmidt
  George Frideric Handel
  Also part of
  St Magnus International Festival
Sat 22 Jun 2019
- 19:30
  St Magnus International Festival - Concert Two
  Pickaquoy Centre Arena
  Ben Gernon conducts works by Stephan, Elgar and Vaughan Williams.
  Ben Gernon conducts works by Stephan, Elgar and Vaughan Williams.
  Programme
  Rudi Stephan
  Music for Orchestra (1912)
  Edward Elgar
  Cello Concerto in E minor
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Dona nobis pacem
  Performers
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  St Magnus Festival Chorus
  Paul Rendall
  chorus director
  chorus director
  Ben Gernon
  conductor
  conductor
  Jamal Aliyev
  cello
  cello
  Mary Bevan
  soprano
  soprano
  Neal Davies
  bass
  bass
  Composers
  Rudi Stephan
  Edward Elgar
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Also part of
  St Magnus International Festival
Fri 21 Jun 2019
- 20:30
  St Magnus International Festival - Concert One
  St Magnus Cathedral
  Directed by Laura Samuel, the BBC SSO's string section performs in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
  Directed by Laura Samuel, the BBC SSO's string section performs in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.
  Programme
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
  Benjamin Britten
  Les illuminations
  Sir James MacMillan
  For Sonny
  Samuel Barber
  Adagio for strings
  Performers
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Laura Samuel
  leader/director
  leader/director
  Mary Bevan
  soprano
  soprano
  Composers
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Benjamin Britten
  Sir James MacMillan
  Samuel Barber
  Also part of
  St Magnus International Festival
Fri 17 May 2019
- 19:30
  Leonskaja Plays Brahms
  Glasgow City Halls
  Elisabeth Leonskaja s Thomas Dausgaard to perform Brahms's 'Piano Concerto No.1'.
  Elisabeth Leonskaja s Thomas Dausgaard to perform Brahms's 'Piano Concerto No.1'.
  Programme
  Johannes Brahms
  Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor
  Béla Bartók
  Concerto for Orchestra
  Performers
  BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  Elisabeth Leonskaja
  piano
  piano
  Thomas Dausgaard
  conductor
  conductor
  Composers
  Johannes Brahms
  Béla Bartók

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Stravinsky - Petrushka

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