Words and Music with the SCO

Par Rohan Shotton, 18 mars 2011

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Critique faite à St Andrews University: Younger Hall, St Andrews, le 16 mars 2011

Battistelli, Fair is foul, foul is fair

Berio, Folk Songs

Harper, Pastoral (ed./arr. Cresswell. SCO commission with funding from the Scottish Government)

Britten, A Suite on English Folk Tunes "A Time There Was" for chamber orchestra, Op.90

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Garry Walker, Direction

Karen Cargill, Mezzo-soprano

Le SCO et Emelyanychev à domicile à la Halle aux grains

Thibault d'Hauthuille, 21st May

Au sein de la série de concerts organisés par Les Grands Interprètes, la phalange écossaise et son directeur musical ont fait forte impression en compagnie de la brillante violoniste Alina Ibragimova.

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Saxophone dreams with Jess Gillam and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

David Smythe, 11th March

Jess Gillom and Scottish Chamber Orchestra in St Andrews in a wide-ranging programme of contemporary music. Ben Glassberg conducts.

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Baroque inspirations from Emelyanychev and the SCO

David Smythe, 20th February

Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra offer a Baroque-inspired programme of Bach, Handel, Britten, a modern take on Scarlatti and wonderfully zany Schnittke.

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Maxim Emelyanychev and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra reshape Mozart

David Smythe, 29th January

In Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, Mozart’s final three symphonies are given a vibrant interpretation by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conducted by the effervescent Maxim Emelyanychev.

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Gnarly Buttons central to the SCO’s John Adams programme

David Smythe, 12th December

Andrew Manze conducts an all-Adams programme in Glasgow, Maximiliano Martín the fearless soloist in Gnarly Buttons, bookended by mesmerising Shaker Loops and exuberant Fearful Symmetries.

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Reich+ from Colin Currie and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

David Smythe, 6th November

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Colin Currie fizz with energy in Duddell, Grime and Steve Reich.

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Rohan Shotton

Rohan has reviewed concerts and opera across the UK and Europe, but chiefly in Manchester, where he enjoys conducting and playing percussion and piano. He works as a hospital doctor, having studied in St Andrews and Manchester, and tweets as @RohanShotton.