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Tickets for these concerts are available in advance from:
Queen's Hall Box Office
Clerk Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9JG
Tel: 0131 668 2019
and at the door.
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Prices:
£11.00 Full price
£9.00 Concessions
£5.00 Students
£1.00 Children
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Saturday 1st October 2011
Greyfriars Kirk, 7.45 pm
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| Mozart | Symphony No 38 in D, K504 (Prague)
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| Koussevitzky | Double Bass Concerto, Op 3
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| Brahms | Symphony No 2 in D, Op 73
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| Conductor | David Watkin
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| Double Bass | Nikita Naumov
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David Watkin directs the MCO for the third year in succession and is
joined by Nikita Naumov, his supremely gifted colleague from the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, in Koussevitzky's Double Bass Concerto of 1905
("there is a timeless universality in the melodrama of its passion and
the soaring beauty of its tone").
Having recently studied Brahms' 2nd Symphony with maestros
Swensen and Panula, David is especially looking forward to exploring
this wonderful lyrical work with the Orchestra.
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Saturday 26th November 2011
Greyfriars Kirk, 7.45 pm
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| Sibelius | Suite: Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
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| Prokofiev | Violin concerto No 2
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| Gregor Forbes | Les Soldes du Printemps (world premiere)
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| Schumann | Symphony No 3, Op 97 (Rhenish)
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| Conductor | Robin Page
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| Violin | Andrea Gajic
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Following last year's success with the MCO, Robin Page returns to
conduct a programme of contrasting works. He is joined by the renowned
Scottish violinist Andrea Gajic in a performance of Prokofiev's 2nd
Violin Concerto, and the concert also includes the winning entry in the
Orchestra's most recent composers' competition, Les Soldes du Printemps,
by Edinburgh's Gregor Forbes.
See our entry on Concert-Diary.com
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Saturday 25th February 2012
Canongate Kirk, 7.45 pm
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| James Clapperton | "Tomnaverie" (world premiere)
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| Mozart | Piano concerto No 20 in D minor, K466
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| Beethoven | Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36
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| Conductor/Piano | Peter Evans
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The historic ambience of Edinburgh's Canongate Kirk is an appropriate
setting for the premiere of Tomnaverie. Commissioned by the MCO,
with financial support from the Binks Trust,
it is based on the melody Tulliveery by Aboyne fiddler Paul
Anderson and captures perfectly the mournful and eery atmosphere of the
forests and stone rings of north-east Scotland. Peter Evans returns to
play and direct Mozart's D minor masterpiece - a work he first performed
with the Orchestra in its inaugural season.
See our entry on Concert-Diary.com
See the flyer for the concert
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Saturday 9th June 2012
Queen's Hall, 7.45 pm
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| Gershwin | Cuban Overture
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| Korngold | Violin Concerto
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| Richard Michael | Jazz Big Band Suite (world premiere)
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| Gershwin | An American in Paris
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| Conductor | Peter Evans
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| Violin | Andrew Haveron
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The highest British prize-winner at the prestigious Paganini competition
for the last 50 years, Andrew Haveron has been one of the MCO's most popular
soloists over the past decade. His highly acclaimed recording with the BBC
Symphony Orchestra of Korngold's Violin Concerto ("written more for a
Caruso than a Paganini") has attracted attention throughout the musical
world. The MCO's 40th anniversary celebration also includes Richard Michael's
specially arranged suite of his own pieces for jazz big band and, by popular
demand, a repeat performance of Gershwin's scintillating
An American in Paris.
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