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2 Dec 2022, Music Hall, Aberdeen
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´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO 2022-23 Season Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' in Aberdeen

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' in Aberdeen
19:30 Fri 2 Dec 2022 Music Hall, Aberdeen
Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan brings out Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral wizardry in 'Scheherazade'.
Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan brings out Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral wizardry in 'Scheherazade'.

Programme

Colourful. Dramatic. Epic.

Heralded by a blaze of brass, a solo violin spins a slow, languorous line to bewitch and beguile... 'Scheherazade’s opening is the musical equivalent of whispering ‘Once upon a time’ and Rimsky-Korsakov uses all his orchestral wizardry in these dramatic scenes from the 1001 Nights. If that violin represents the seductive voice of Scheherazade, there’s a more mournful – if no less passionate – equivalent in Bloch’s 'Schelomo' where the cello embodies the soul of King Solomon. Pablo Ferrández is the soloist and our Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan conducts. The concert opens with another musical portrait: Hamlet, a dramatic and tormented rendering of the Danish prince that makes use of incidental music Tchaikovsky wrote for Shakespeare’s play.

This concerts ends at approximately 9:10pm.