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3 Oct 2015, City Halls
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ѿý SSO 2015-16 Season Hear and Now: Two British Voices

ѿý Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Hear and Now: Two British Voices
20:00 Sat 3 Oct 2015 Grand Hall
Hear and Now: Two British Voices
Hear and Now: Two British Voices

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Hear and Now: Two British Voices

The first Hear and Now of the ѿý SSO’s 15/16 season pairs two friends who are major voices in British contemporary music: Oliver Knussen and Ryan Wigglesworth. Glasgow-born Knussen’s music is famous for its jewel-like brightness, precision, and playfulness: Music for a Puppet Court spins variations on a16th century puzzle canon, using two small orchestras (and an alarm clock), while the whirling Flourish is an established orchestral favourite.

Composer-conductor Ryan Wigglesworth dedicated his recent Violin Concerto to Knussen, a work which “manages to fulfil all the conventions of a classical concerto without succumbing to any of its clichés” (The Guardian). The ѿý SSO’s Leader Laura Samuel is the soloist, while soprano Claire Booth sings both Wigglesworth’s Augenlieder - settings of poems by Robert Browning, Egon Schiele, Arthur Rimbaud and John Berryman - and songs from Knussen’s opera Where The Wild Things Are, his celebrated version of Maurice Sendak’s famous children’s book.