Edinburgh Series 2008-2009
 

 
Tickets are available in advance from:
Queen's Hall Box Office
Clerk Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9JG
Tel: 0131 668 2019

and at the door.
Prices:
£10.00 Full price
£8.00 Concessions
£4.00 Students
£1.00 Children

 
Sunday 30 November 2008
Queen's Hall, 7.45 pm
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Njane Mugambi Pum bum bum peh (Music for brass and drums)
Dorward Aldhammer Album
Elgar Violin Concerto
Conductor Peter Evans
Violin Tom Bowes

Well known internationally as a soloist, Tom Bowes has made Elgar's magnificent concerto very much his own.

Njane Mugambi is a leading figure on the Kenyan musical scene as performer, composer, and teacher with interests, reflected in his music, in both African and Western classical music. The title is a tongue-in-cheek representation of the sounds of large and small drums.

Aldhammer was an old name for Prestonpans, The Album is a set of short pieces for string orchestra, written after the composer went to live there several years ago, and inspired by local features.


 
Sunday 22 February 2009
Queen's Hall, 7.45 pm
Beethoven Egmont Overture
R Strauss Four Last Songs
Lliam Paterson Fantasy Variations (World Premiere)
Ravel Mother Goose (Complete Ballet Suite)
Conductor Peter Evans
Soprano Kirstin Sharpin

Lliam Paterson composed his Fantasy Variations early in 2008 while a pupil at St Mary's Music School.

Composed shortly before Strauss' death in 1948, the haunting Four Last Songs are among the most memorable of all his works.

A graduate of RSAMD, Kirstin Sharpin has considerable experience in opera and as a recitalist. She was a semi-finalist in the 2008 Kathleen Ferrier Awards competition.

The Mother Goose Suite started as a set of five pieces for piano duet, which Ravel then orchestrated. Later a further six pieces were added to create the enchanting ballet suite.


 
Sunday 3 May 2009
Queen's Hall, 7.45 pm
Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90
Mahler (arr Britten) Symphony No 3, 2nd movement
What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
Delius Two pieces for small orchestra:
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Summer Night on the River
Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mozart Symphony No 40 in G minor, K550
Conductor Garry Walker
Cello Nicholas Trygstad

Garry Walker's concerts with the Orchestra have become annual events and are keenly awaited.

Britten's Suite is otherwise known as A Time There Was. It is one of his last works, in contrast to his early arrangement of the exquisite Mahler movement for a (relively) small orchestra, designed to introduce Mahler to a wider audience.

The rest of the programme consists of well loved works that need no introduction.

US-born Nicholas Trygstad is currently principal cellist with the Hallé Orchestra besides having a growing international career as a soloist.


 
 
 
Additional Concerts 2008-2009
 

 

 
Saturday 4 October 2008
Dollar Academy, 7.30pm
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Dorward Aldhammer Album
Copland Music for the Theatre
Schubert Symphony No 5
Conductor Peter Evans

 
Saturday 13 December 2008
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Alasdair Spratt Insight (1999)
Copland Music for the Theatre
Schubert Symphony No 5
Conductor Peter Evans

 
Saturday 30 May 2009
Rudolf Steiner School, Edinburgh, 7 pm
Bach Keyboard Concerto in A, BWV 1055
Mozart Violin Concerto in G, KV 216
Handel Zadok the Priest (with school choir)
Mendelssohn Variations Serieuses Op 54 for solo piano
Copland Music for the Theatre
Conductor Peter Evans
Piano in Bach Peter Evans
Violin Ulrike Fenner
Piano in Mendelssohn Richard Scott

This concert is promoted by the Rudolf Steiner School as part of its 70th birthday celebrations. Admission is free. There will be a retiring collection in aid of the work of the orchestra.