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Venue: City Halls: Concert Hall, Glasgow

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AddressCandleriggs
Glasgow
Scotland
G1 1NQ
United Kingdom
Google maps55° 51' 30.783" N 4° 14' 41.819" W
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GlasgowSymphonic Pride: We Have Always Been Here

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Bernstein, Kats-Chernin, Poulenc, Higdon, Tchaikovsky, Roan
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Jessica Cottis

GlasgowOpening Night: Beethoven's Violin Concerto

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Beethoven, Zemlinsky
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Ryan Wigglesworth; Bomsori Kim; Miah Persson; James Atkinson

GlasgowBerlioz Symphonie fantastique

© Christopher Bowen
Berlioz
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Timothy Ridout

GlasgowBach St Matthew Passion

© Christopher Bowen
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Maxim Emelyanychev; Nick Pritchard; Matthew Brook; Hilary Cronin

GlasgowAntony Hermus conducts Mahler's Tenth Symphony

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Jeths, Mahler
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Antony Hermus

GlasgowBeethoven Piano Concertos

© Marco Borggreve
Shaw, Beethoven
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Sunwook Kim; Stephanie Gonley

GlasgowMax Richter+

© Jonathan Vivaas Kise
Richter, Glass, Adams
Scottish Chamber Orchestra; David Brophy; Chris Ekers; Mari Samuelsen

GlasgowEnrico Chapela's Electric Violin Concerto

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Pärt, Chapela, Tubin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Mihhail Gerts; Chloë Hanslip
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Baroque inspirations from Emelyanychev and the SCO

Maxim Emelyanychev © Christopher Bowen

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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Meditative and powerful Górecki at Celtic Connections

Francesca Chiejina and Paweł Kapuła © Kris Kesiak | Celtic Connections

The Celtic Connections festival showcases Górecki’s Sorrowful Songs, the BBC Scottish with soprano Francesca Chiejina conducted by Pawel Kapula with a thoughtful introductory song set from Alice Zawadzki.

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Gnarly Buttons central to the SCO’s John Adams programme

Andrew Manze © Benjamin Ealovega

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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Celebrating 90 years of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martin Brabbins © Mihaela Bodlovic

Martyn Brabbins conducts MacMillan’s Confession of Isobel Gowdie, BBCSSO founder Ian Whyte’s forgotten Violin Concerto with Stephanie Gonley, and a memorable Rachmaninov 2.

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A meditative Estonian celebration of 90 years of Arvo Pärt

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tõnu Kaljuste © Kaupo Kikkas

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tõnu Kaljuste, present an Arvo Pärt portrait concert in Glasgow. 

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Kuusisto and Crawford-Phillips bring New Dimensions to SCO

Pekka Kuusisto and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra © Christopher Bowen

Pekka Kuusisto and Simon Crawford-Phillips lead the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a musical arc featuring works by Britten, Adès, Andres, Beamish and Haydn. 

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Dvořák’s music takes centre stage in the SCO's season opener

Steven Isserlis and Maxim Emelyanychev © Christopher Bowen
Dvořák, the SCO and conductor Maxim Emelyanychev are a winning combination, but does Steven Isserlis steal everyone’s thunder?
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BBC Scottish and RCS in fruitful partnership in epic Shostakovich 11

Martyn Brabbins © BBC Scottish SO

Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony, in partnership with musicians from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, present a new work from Mingdu Li, Glière’s Horn concerto and an immense Shostakovich 11.

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