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26 Oct 2023, Glasgow City Halls
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±«Óătv SSO 2023-24 Season Afternoon Performance: Beethoven 7

±«Óătv Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Afternoon Performance: Beethoven 7
14:00 Thu 26 Oct 2023 Glasgow City Halls
Mult-talented composer/conductor Jörg Widmann directs a selection of his own compositions before exploring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.
Mult-talented composer/conductor Jörg Widmann directs a selection of his own compositions before exploring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Programme

      • Con brio(12 mins)
      • Dubairische Tänze(16 mins)
      • Danse macabre(16 mins)(±«Óătv Co-Commission, UK Premiere)
        • interval
        • Symphony No. 7 in A major(38 mins)

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    “Wild and beautiful, terrible and final” is how Jörg Widmann describes his new orchestral work, Danse macabre – in which he imagines himself dancing with Death. “His pull and his power must be stronger than we know from any earthly dance – no easy task for a composer, but a fascinating one”, he says.

    Still, if any living musician can do the impossible, it’s him. “Any Widmann performance brings whatever he plays kicking and screaming into the present day” says The Guardian, and today he takes Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, breaks it into little pieces and throws it together again – Con brio – before giving us that whole symphony in his own electrifying interpretation. Hear it and believe it.

    This concerts ends at approximately 3.45pm.

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