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12 Mar 2017, His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
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´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO 2016-17 Season Elgar’s Second Symphony in Aberdeen

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Elgar’s Second Symphony in Aberdeen
15:00 Sun 12 Mar 2017 His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
Richard Farnes conducts works by Butterworth, MacMillan & Elgar in Aberdeen
Richard Farnes conducts works by Butterworth, MacMillan & Elgar in Aberdeen

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Elgar’s Second Symphony begins in a great, glowing surge of confidence and pride. Then something happens – the layers peel away, the shadows darken, and we hear a great artist laying bare his damaged soul with an intensity and truth unprecedented in British music. It’s unforgettable: an emotional autobiography on a par with Mahler, and a fitting counterpart to the terrible beauty of Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad, performed to mark the 100th anniversary of its composer’s death on the Somme. Sir James MacMillan’s new Viola Concerto, meanwhile, weds the dusky sound of the viola to orchestral writing of fiery brilliance and dark passion. Richard Farnes conducts its dedicatee, Lawrence Power, in this Scottish Premiere.

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