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ABERDEEN
CONCERT
SERIES 18/
19
A spectacular return to
the Aberdeen Music Hall
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FINAL CONCERT
AT HIS MAJESTY'S
THEATRE
3pm Sunday 14 Oct 2018
Before the 2019 series begins, join the RSNO and
their newly appointed Music Director Thomas
Søndergård for one last performance at His
Majesty’s Theatre in October 2018, featuring
music by Rachmaninov, Ravel and Grieg.
Tickets
Premium I II III IV
£29 £24.50 £21.50 £16.50 £13.00
Book online at www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
or phone 01224 641122
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SØNDERGÅRD
CONDUCTS
RACHMANINOV ONE
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
GRIEG Selected movements from Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2
RAVEL Shéhérazade
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1
Thomas Søndergård Conductor
Catriona Morison Mezzo-soprano
Meet the Artist Insights 2.15pm Ursula Heidecker Allen
(RSNO Violin) in conversation with Catriona Morison
‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay!’ And taking his cue from
those thunderous words, Sergei Rachmaninov launches a
First Symphony like no other. Dark, stormy and burning with
unrequited passion, it’s heady stuff, and a gripping contrast to
Grieg’s much-loved Peer Gynt. The RSNO’s new Music Director
Thomas Søndergård is reunited on stage with Scottish mezzo
Catriona Morison – fresh from her triumph in 2017’s Cardiff
Singer of the World – in Ravel’s exquisite Shéhérazade.
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TWO GREAT
ORCHESTRAS –
ONE GREAT
MUSIC SERIES!
Gavin Reid A very warm welcome from the Royal Scottish National
SCO Chief Executive Orchestra (RSNO) and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Krishna Thiagarajan (SCO) to the Aberdeen Concert Series! We are delighted to
RSNO Chief Executive be presenting our 2019 Series in the newly-transformed and
much-loved Music Hall on Union Street.
2019 sees the opening of the Music Hall Series with
a typically Mozartian SCO programme including the
irresistible Fourth Horn Concerto with award-winning
British soloist and SCO Principal Horn Alec Frank-Gemmill.
Inspiration from Shakespeare links the next two concerts.
RSNO Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan and the RSNO
present a programme for Valentine’s weekend including
selected movements from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet
and a work to pull your heartstrings – Rachmaninov’s Piano
Concerto No 2. Then in March, Soprano Carolyn Sampson
and Conductor Richard Egarr with the SCO draw inspiration
from A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Purcell’s Fairy Queen
together with Handel’s riotous Music for the Royal Fireworks.
Enjoy Ravel’s jazzy Piano Concerto and a rare chance to hear
a brand new classical accordion concerto written as a tribute
to the late Peter Maxwell Davies from the SCO, before the
RSNO brings the Series to a spectacular close with Elgar’s
popular Enigma Variations and Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.
We are so looking forward to welcoming you at each and
every one of our concerts in this magnificent Series of music
at the Music Hall.
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19 JAN MOZART
Saturday HORN CONCERTO
7:30pm
Music Hall NO 4
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
WA MOZART Symphony No 31 in D, K297 'Paris'
L MOZART Sinfonia in G major
WA MOZART/M HAYDN Adagio & Fugue in D, K291/MH287
WA MOZART Horn Concerto No 4 in E-flat, K495
JC BACH Overture and Suite, Amadis de Gaules
WA MOZART Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K366
Reinhard Goebel Conductor
Alec Frank-Gemmill Natural Horn
Meet the Artist Insights 6.45pm SCO Principal Horn
Alec Frank-Gemmill in conversation with Sub-Principal
Second Violin Gordon Bragg
Reinhard Goebel, master of historical performance, conducts
a concert dedicated to the genius of Mozart, and his friends.
Mozart's Symphony No 31 is saturated with the Parisian
taste for colour and excitement, instantly seizing you with
its energy and vitality. Award-winning SCO Principal Horn
Alec Frank-Gemmill presents the irresistible Horn Concerto
No 4 on Natural Horn, and there's the dramatic intensity of
Mozart's orchestral interlude from Idomeneo. Musical gems
by Mozart's father Leopold, his close friend Michael Haydn,
and the person he greatly admired, JC Bach, complete this
musical feast.
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17 FEB CHAN CONDUCTS
Sunday ROMEO AND
3pm
Music Hall JULIET
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2
PROKOFIEV Selected movements from Romeo and
Juliet Suites 1 & 2
Elim Chan Conductor
Lukáš Vondráček Piano
Meet the Artist Insights 2.15pm Aleksei Kiseliov
(RSNO Principal Cello) in conversation with Elim Chan
(RSNO Principal Guest Conductor)
But soft: what light through yonder window breaks?
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet redefined romantic music,
while Prokofiev brought Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers
to the USSR – and gave us some of the twentieth century’s
loveliest melodies. Rachmaninov’s Second, meanwhile, has
got to be the world’s dreamiest piano concerto, and with
Elim Chan conducting the charismatic young Czech piano
star Lukáš Vondráček, it’s the passionate heart of a Valentine’s
concert that’s much more than just a brief encounter.
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9 MAR BRILLIANCE OF THE
Saturday BAROQUE WITH
7:30pm
Music Hall RICHARD EGARR
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
PURCELL Music from The Fairy Queen
HANDEL Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 1 in B-flat
HANDEL Arias from Semele: Oh, Jove in pity;
Oh sleep; Myself I shall adore
HANDEL Music for the Royal Fireworks
Richard Egarr Conductor / Harpsichord
Carolyn Sampson Soprano
Connect Insights 6.45pm Pre-concert performance by
students from Aberdeen City Music School
Described as a conductor ‘full of fizzy finesse’, Richard Egarr
presents a celebration of Handel and Purcell. There’s a riot
of colour in Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and in his
Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 1, and exquisitely beautiful arias
from his humorous musical drama Semele, delivered by the
dazzling soprano Carolyn Sampson.
Purcell’s glimmering suite from the opera The Fairy Queen
draws inspiration from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s
Dream, a bewitching tale celebrating the wonder and joy of
love in all its forms. Purcell conjures up an enchanted world
where the magical forces of nature reign supreme.
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13 APR CHAMAYOU
Saturday PLAYS RAVEL PIANO
7:30pm
Music Hall CONCERTO
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
GINASTERA Variaciones Concertantes
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 4
Josep Pons Conductor
Bertrand Chamayou Piano
Proudly sponsored by
So many wonderful soloists in this concert! Each of
Ginastera’s 12 Variaciones puts different orchestral players
in the spotlight, making a kind of kaleidoscopic spectacular.
Then Bertrand Chamayou takes the stage for Ravel’s jazzy
concerto. Ravel fell in love with jazz in the 1920s and fused it
brilliantly with his own European heritage.
Chamayou is sparky, dazzlingly virtuosic, but thoughtful
and sensitive too: the ideal soloist. After such a high-octane
first half, Pons closes the evening with Beethoven’s lustrous
Fourth Symphony.
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4 MAY JONATHAN DOVE
Saturday ACCORDION
7:30pm
Music Hall CONCERTO
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
MOZART Symphony No 34 in C, K338
DOVE Accordion Concerto World Premiere
LIGETI Concerto Românesc
HAYDN Symphony No 90 in C
Clemens Schuldt Conductor
Owen Murray Accordion
Benjamin Marquise Gilmore Violin
Composer Insights 6.45pm Jonathan Dove introduces
his new Accordion Concerto
Kindly supported by Jonathan Dove’s concertos are often more than they
Mr Roland Williams, seem, for example, his flute concerto The Magic Flute
PRS Foundation and Dances imagines the life of the magic flute after the end of
the Royal Academy Mozart’s eponymous opera. His new Accordion Concerto
of Music promises to be a fitting tribute to Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies, drawing influences from his love of Orkney.
Max had been commissioned to write the concerto for
accordion virtuoso Owen Murray, but sadly he passed
away just as he was about to start work on it. Mozart and
Haydn are both in high spirits in their symphonies here
– Haydn plays a joke that is sure to catch you out – while
Ligeti is in a rustic, folksy mood.
1019 MAY CHAN CONDUCTS
Sunday ENIGMA
3pm
Music Hall VARIATIONS
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
FUNG LAM Endless Forms Scottish Premiere
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
ELGAR Enigma Variations
Elim Chan Conductor
Benjamin Beilman Violin
Meet the Artist Insights 2.15pm Katherine Wren
(RSNO Viola) in conversation with Benjamin Beilman
Impatient pianists, practical jokers, and an
overenthusiastic bulldog. Elgar dedicated his Enigma
Variations to ‘my friends pictured within’, and if all you
know of them is Nimrod, you’re about to meet some
of the most loveable characters in British music. It’s a
joyous finale to a musical journey that begins inside the
fantastic imagination of Hong Kong-born Fung Lam,
and finds violinist Benjamin Beilman deep in the Finnish
forests of Sibelius’ hugely popular Violin Concerto. A
fitting finish to the Aberdeen Concert Series.
11Aberdeen Box Office
Aberdeen Box Office, Music Hall Ticket Discounts
Union Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1QS
Free Tickets for Under 16s
Telephone 01224 641122
Under 16s go free to the Aberdeen Concert
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Series. Under 16s must be accompanied by a
paying adult with a maximum of two free child
Opening Times tickets per adult ticket. Additional children are
Monday to Saturday 9.30am – 6.00pm. charged at £6 each.
On performance days the Box Office will also Under 26s, Students and Unemployed
open one hour before the concert starts.
£6 tickets are available in price areas III
and IV for people aged 25 and under,
On Sale Dates mature students and people in receipt of
Series tickets are available to purchase from unemployment benefit.
25 May 2018. Tickets for individual concerts People with a Disability
go on sale from 17 June 2018.
People with disabilities and their carer are
entitled to 50% off standard price tickets.
Ticket Prices
Group Discounts
Prices are inclusive of all booking fees but a
Groups of 6 or more save 20% off standard
postage charge of £1.00 per transaction will
price tickets. Groups of 11 or more save 30%
be incurred where applicable.
off standard price tickets.
School Groups
Price Area
School and youth groups are most welcome
Premium I II III IV at the Aberdeen Concert Series. Tickets for
£29.00 £24.50 £21.50 £16.50 £13.00 schools and school-age youth groups are £6.
Please note: All discounts are subject to availability.
We regret that tickets to the Aberdeen Concert
Series are non-refundable.
Seating Plan
Access
BALCONY STALLS
Full access for wheelchair users.
Guide dogs are welcome.
An infra-red sound enhancement
system is fitted for people with
hearing difficulties.
Please notify the Box Office when booking if you
have any specific access requirements which require
Stage Stage assistance.
12BUY YOUR 2019
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concerts you book the more you can save – up to 35% for all 6 concerts!
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• Select the concerts you wish to attend on Aberdeen Concert Series Tickets, His
the booking form Majesty’s Theatre, Box Office, Rosemount
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Concerts Premium I II III IV Discount
3 £73.95 £62.40 £54.75 £42.00 £33.15 15%
4 £87.00 £73.40 £64.40 £49.40 £39.00 25%
5 £101.50 £85.75 £75.25 £57.75 £45.50 30%
6 £113.10 £95.40 £83.70 £64.20 £50.70 35%
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13Booking Form
1. Let us know your details
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2. Please tick the boxes below to indicate your choice of concerts
□ Sat 19 Jan 7.30pm Mozart Horn Concerto No 4 SCO
□ Sun 17 Feb 3pm Chan Conducts Romeo and Juliet RSNO
□ Sat 9 Mar 7.30pm Brilliance of the Baroque with Richard Egarr SCO
□ Sat 13 Apr 7.30pm Chamayou Plays Ravel Piano Concerto SCO
□ Sat 4 May 7.30pm Jonathan Dove Accordion Concerto SCO
□ Sun 19 May 3pm Chan Conducts Enigma Variations RSNO
3. Count the number of concerts and attendees, tell us where you would like to sit and total the price
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14Thank You
The RSNO gratefully acknowledges support from
Principal Sponsors & Corporate Principal Transport Provider Corporate Chair Sponsors
Donors ScotRail Cadenhead’s
Capital Document Solutions J & A Mitchell & Co Ltd
Victor & Carina Contini Restaurants Principal Media Partner Mitchell’s Glengyle
Gallagher Classic FM Springbank Distillers Ltd
Glasgow Airport Broadcast Partner
Harry Fairbairn BBC Radio 3
Institut français d’Écosse We are grateful to all the
Investec Wealth & Investment Corporate Partners companies, trusts, foundations
La Bonne Auberge Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and public funders who support
Old Course Hotel, Golf Institute of Directors the work of the RSNO alongside
Resort & Spa Scots Magazine the individual support of our Major
Prestonfield House The Scottish Council for Donors, Patrons, RSNO Circle
Valvona & Crolla Development & Industry Members, Young Professionals
Smart Graphics and Subscribers. Thank you to all
our supporters listed above and
to those who prefer to remain
anonymous.
The SCO gratefully acknowledges support from
Benefactor Creative Partners The SCO would also like to
Dunard Fund Aberdeen City Music School thank Local Authorities, Business
Drake Music Scotland Partners, the Principal Conductor’s
Major Partner Edinburgh College Circle, Patrons, Subscribers,250
Virgin Money Edinburgh International Society Members and many trusts
Book Festival and foundations who make such a
Edinburgh International Festival vital financial contribution towards
Business Partners
Horsecross Arts their activities.
Adam & Company
NHS Lothian
Baillie Gifford
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Capital Document Solutions
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Culture and Business Fund
St Mary’s Music School
Scotland
The Institute for Music in Human
Insider.co.uk
and Social Development (IMHSD)
Institut français d’Écosse
University of St Andrews
Kinloch Anderson
(Orchestra in Residence)
Pulsant
University of Edinburgh
Quilter Cheviot
(Orchestra in Association)
Turcan Connell
Wester Hailes Community
Residency Schools
WHALE Arts
15Concert Diary
2018 final concert at His Majesty’s Theatre
14 OCT SØNDERGÅRD
Sunday CONDUCTS
3.00pm RACHMANINOV ONE
RSNO
2019 series concerts at the Music Hall
19 JAN MOZART HORN 17 FEB CHAN CONDUCTS 9 MAR BRILLIANCE OF
Saturday CONCERTO NO 4 Sunday ROMEO AND JULIET Saturday THE BAROQUE WITH
7.30pm SCO 3.00pm RSNO 7.30pm RICHARD EGARR
SCO
13 APR CHAMAYOU PLAYS 4 MAY JONATHAN DOVE 19 MAY CHAN CONDUCTS
Saturday RAVEL PIANO Saturday ACCORDION Sunday ENIGMA VARIATIONS
7.30pm CONCERTO 7.30pm CONCERTO 3.00pm RSNO
SCO SCO
Scottish Chamber Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra
HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay Patron HM The Queen Patron
Thomas Søndergård Music Director
4 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5AB 19 Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NX
t: 0131 557 6800 / f: 0131 557 6933 t: 0141 226 3868
info@sco.org.uk info@rsno.org.uk
www.sco.org.uk www.rsno.org.uk
SCOmusic scottishchamberorchestra RSNO royalscottishnationalorchestra
A charity registered in Scotland No SC015039 A charity registered in Scotland No SC010702
Company registration No SC75079 Company registration No 27809
All details are correct at time of publication. The SCO and RSNO The RSNO and SCO are supported by:
reserve the right to change performance details in exceptional
circumstances without prior notification.
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