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Prokofiev wrote his Sixth Symphony in the aftermath of World War Two and though it’s certainly an epic it’s far from clear that it ends in anything as simple as triumph. His ‘Autumnal Sketch’, 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’s 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

Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Colin Currie (percussion)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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