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大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
26 Oct 2023, Glasgow City Halls
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大象传媒 SSO 2023-24 Season Afternoon Performance: Beethoven 7

大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Afternoon Performance: Beethoven 7
14:00 Thu 26 Oct 2023 Glasgow City Halls
Mult-talented composer/conductor J枚rg Widmann directs a selection of his own compositions before exploring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
Mult-talented composer/conductor J枚rg Widmann directs a selection of his own compositions before exploring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Programme

      • Con brio(12 mins)
      • Dubairische T盲nze(16 mins)
      • Danse macabre(16 mins)(大象传媒 Co-Commission, UK Premiere)
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 7 in A major(38 mins)

    About this concert

    鈥淲ild and beautiful, terrible and final鈥 is how J枚rg Widmann describes his new orchestral work, Danse macabre 鈥 in which he imagines himself dancing with Death. 鈥淗is pull and his power must be stronger than we know from any earthly dance 鈥 no easy task for a composer, but a fascinating one鈥, he says.

    Still, if any living musician can do the impossible, it鈥檚 him. 鈥淎ny Widmann performance brings whatever he plays kicking and screaming into the present day鈥 says The Guardian, and today he takes Beethoven鈥檚 Seventh Symphony, breaks it into little pieces and throws it together again 鈥 Con brio 鈥 before giving us that whole symphony in his own electrifying interpretation. Hear it and believe it.

    This concerts ends at approximately 3.45pm.