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22 Jun 2017, Glasgow City Halls
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´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO 2016-17 Season Glasgow Trombone Weekend: Beethoven's Fifth

´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Glasgow Trombone Weekend: Beethoven's Fifth
19:30 Thu 22 Jun 2017 Grand Hall
The Glasow Trombone Weekend opens with works by Rossini, Jan Sandström & Beethoven
The Glasow Trombone Weekend opens with works by Rossini, Jan Sandström & Beethoven

Programme

      • Overture: The Thieving Magpie(10 mins)Christian Lindberg, conductor
      • Echoes of Eternity (Concerto for two trombones and orchestra)(25 mins)(Scottish Premiere) Simon Johnson and Christian Lindberg, trombones
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 5 in C minor(34 mins)

    Performers

    Concert information

    How did Beethoven give the final movement of his famous Fifth Symphony the impact he required? With trombones of course! Although this wasn’t actually the first use of the trombone in a symphony, it’s probably the most famous, and it’s a fitting climax to this first Trombone Weekend concert from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO. Swedish composer Jan Sandström’s concerto for two trombones, meanwhile, is a homage to the Spanish city of Cáceres (at its UK Premiere The Guardian compared the work’s ‘squawking and honking’ to the colony of storks that nest in Cáceres's medieval towers), while Rossini’s frantic, tune-packed overture is another early showcase for the trombone. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ SSO’s Simon Johnson plays the Sandström with Christian Lindberg, who shares conducting duties with Martyn Brabbins.

    Pre-Concert Event: 6.45pm in the Recital Room: a short informal performance by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to showcase some of the fine young brass talent available here in Glasgow (free to ticket-holders, limited seating availability).

    This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3.