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Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony

Mihhail Gerts conducts the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Prokofiev, and they are joined by percussionist Colin Currie for a recent concerto by Olga Neuwirth.

Prokofiev wrote his Sixth Symphony in the aftermath of World War Two and though it鈥檚 certainly an epic it鈥檚 far from clear that it ends in anything as simple as triumph. His 鈥楢utumnal Sketch鈥�, which opens this concert, is rooted in late Romanticism: composed when he was an 18-year-old composition student of the great Rimsky-Korsakov.

Olga Neuwirth鈥檚 music includes traces of Stravinsky, Monteverdi, jazz, pop and hip-hop. But its roots reach all the way back to Gustav Mahler, Alban Berg and Arnold Schoenberg. Tonight Colin Currie joins the orchestra for the first UK performance of her sci-fi inspired Percussion Concerto, 'Trurliade - Zone Zero': an utterly original vision of a robot creator going terrifyingly off the rails.

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Kate Molleson

Prokofiev: Autumnal Sketch
Olga Neuwirth: Trurliade - Zone Zero
Prokofiev: Symphony No 6

Mihhail Gerts (conductor)
Colin Currie (percussion)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Autumnal Sketch Op.8

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mihhail Gerts.

  • Olga Neuwirth

    Trurliade - Zone Zero

    Performer: Colin Currie. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mihhail Gerts.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude And Fugue No. 17 In A Flat Major Op.87 No.17

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Ballade In C Minor Op.15

    Performer: Marina Tarasova. Performer: Ivan Sokolov.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 6 In E Flat Minor Op.111

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mihhail Gerts.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un vieux jardin [3 Morceaux]

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto. Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 901.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un jardin clair [3 Morceaux]

    Performer: Hiroko Ishimoto.
    • Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 1001.

  • Lili Boulanger

    3 Morceaux: No. 3, Cort猫ge (Version for Piano)

    • Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers.
    • Grand Piano.
    • 1101.

  • Florence Price

    Five Folksongs in Counterpoint (No 4, Shortnin' Bread. Allegro)

    Ensemble: Apollo Chamber Ensemble.
    • Navona Records.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Feb 2025 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3