Name: BBC SSO In Inverness
Start: 2019-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-04-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Eden Court

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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Martyn Brabbins

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Colin Currie

Marimba

BBC SSO In Inverness

Inverness

United Kingdom

Eden Court

Public

Concert

Symphonies of Wind Instruments, K036

Now You Hear Me, Now You Don't, Op.102

Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op 93

Jnanakumar P

Approved

The Soviet authorities called Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony an “optimistic tragedy”, and if that sounds confusing, it’s probably because they were as astonished – and conflicted – as the rest of us by this most troubled of modern masterpieces. A massive, defiant act of self-assertion in the face of official tyranny, it’s a monumental climax to a concert that begins with the primary-coloured sonorities and timeless Russian rituals of Stravinsky’s 'Symphonies of wind instruments' and which also features Colin Currie, one of Scotland’s (and the world’s) finest percussionists in a performance of Kurt Schwertsik’s charming ‘marimba concerto’, premiered by Currie in 2009 and described by him then as “a true treat for the ears”.

6.45pm - Pre-Concert Talk (free to ticket-holders): conductor Martyn Brabbins and soloist Colin Currie in conversation with BBC SSO violinist Alex Gascoine.

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

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble