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ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra
27 Sep 2019, Music Hall, Aberdeen
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ѿý SSO 2019-20 Season Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances in Aberdeen

ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances in Aberdeen
19:30 Fri 27 Sep 2019 Music Hall, Aberdeen
Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances in Aberdeen.
Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances in Aberdeen.

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New worlds for old. Exiled from Russia – but big in America - Sergei Rachmaninov searched his memories, and his ‘Symphonic Dances’ fuse the melancholy of exile with the sheer electricity of the jazz-age USA. Dream ballet? Concerto for orchestra? Or simply the greatest symphony Rachmaninov never wrote? However you hear them, they’re the heart of a concert that’s not ashamed to paint pictures and summon powerful emotions. Bruch’s much-loved Violin Concerto comes from a German romantic world of solitary wanderers and distant horn-calls, so it’s perfect for what one critic has called the “lovely freedom and sense of fantasy” of Henning Kraggerud – a violinist who has something fresh to say in even the most familiar music. The new ѿý SSO season at the Music Hall begins with what’s arguably still Scotland’s greatest single contribution to the history of classical music: Mendelssohn’s Scottish seascape ‘The Hebrides’, conceived on a boat trip to Staffa but opening new horizons of musical imagination and colour.

Please note: Alpesh Chauhan replaces the ѿý SSO's Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard who is unwell.

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