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Romantic Love Stories with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra »

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Romantic Love Stories

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It seems to be the fashion nowadays to give cheap titles to concerts in order, one imagines, to make them more marketable. The last Scottish Chamber Orchestra, ‘Romantic Love Stories’, was no exception to the rule. Fortunately, the title pr...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Alexandre Charles Johnstone | Read more »

SCO: Travels in Eastern Europe »

Robin Ticciati

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The sizeable cross-section of Edinburgh society which fills the Queen’s Hall tonight seems to have been caught in a bit of a headlock by the SCO. The temptation of Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto coupled with his renowned Prague Symphony is too m...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

German Romantics »

SCO: Martin Maximillano, German Romantics

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It seems to go without saying that a virtuosic concerto coupled with a dynamic conductor and two thoroughly Romantic symphonies will draw in the crowds with ease. This is why, with the new Scottish Chamber Orchestra season programme still fresh in our ...

Wed 11 Nov 2009 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Joseph Swensen »

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Joseph Swensen, composer of tonight's world premier, The Fire and the Rose, boasts an impressive CV of work with the SCO. Having toured extensively and conducted many recordings with the ensemble, he was able to give the audience an emotive realisatio...

Mon 27 Apr 2009 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' »

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There are advantages to small venues, but it’s refreshing to see the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in the grand surroundings of the Festival Theatre. Something about this venue, so rarely inhabited by the SCO, gives the ensemble a new dimension toni...

Sun 08 Feb 2009 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

Summer Night in Wintertime »

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Mendelssohn - Overture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Berlioz - Les Nuits d’Eté Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte Saint-Saëns - Symphony in A major In a continuation of the Mendelssohn 200 celebration, tonight’s ...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

Scottish Chamber Orchestra: the Mendelssohn celebration begins »

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At the start of a series of concerts commemorating Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday, the SCO bring us his overture The Fair Melusine alongside two equally expressive orchestral works from Mozart and Schubert. An interesting initial observation...

Sun 11 Jan 2009 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

The SCO in the performance of a lifetime »

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An unforgettable performance? I think so. To seasoned concert goers, there is an unavoidable danger that a number of recitals become blurred in one’s mind. I can safely say that there is no danger of such an occurrence happening tonight, which...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

Baroque on »

Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

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I'm not a fan of the word "eclectic", but it’s a struggle to find a more suitable adjective to classify this performance. While parts of tonight’s works root the listener firmly in the texture of the 20th and 21st centuries, other...

Thu 14 Feb 2008 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

Messiaen on a Sunday afternoon »

Pianist Peter Hill

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“Emotionally, it’s right off the top of the thermometer,” is how Peter Hill, this afternoon’s pianist, describes the music of Olivier Messiaen in his pre-concert talk. Even to the untrained ear, it is obvious that emotion is so...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Sarah Mitchell | Read more »

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