PERTH CONCERT

SERIES 2018/19

PERTH CONCERT HALL BOX OFFICE: 01738 621031 WWW.HORSECROSS.CO.UK

Pre-concert talks Gannochy Auditorium 6.45pm

We are delighted to present pre-concert talks as part of the Scottish Orchestras’ Series. Talks take place at 6.45pm and are free to ticket holders only.

WELCOME

The Perth Concert Series provides a fantastic opportunity to experience your national orchestras and world class soloists in the glorious acoustic of Perth Concert Hall.

It is the only platform dedicated to showcasing Scotland’s three leading orchestras; the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

The SCO launch the 2018/19 season with Beethoven’s noble Violin Concerto performed by one of Norway’s brightest stars Vilde Frang, while the RSNO’s new Music Director Thomas Søndergård brings Poulenc’s exuberant Gloria featuring the RSNO Chorus. The BBC SSO perform a programme of Debussy to mark the centenary of his death, featuring his poetic seascape La Mer and the iconic work Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune.

The three orchestras are joined by a host of star soloists: Nicola Benedetti plays and directs two Mozart Violin Concertos with the SCO, Alexander Gavrylyuk teams up with the RSNO to perform Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Carolin Widmann joins forces with the BBC SSO to perform the witty, electrically-charged Violin Concerto that Stravinsky intended to be unplayable.

Remember that by booking all six concerts in the season you can save 25% and that Under 16s go FREE to the Perth Concert Series. Plus, you can also book the following concerts at the same time as your subscription; The Russian State Symphony Orchestra, RSNO Christmas Concert featuring The Snowman, New Year Gala Concert, RSNO Prom with the Ayoub Sisters, and Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants. So join us for another year of nights out that raise the roof and stir the soul, right in the heart of Scotland!

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SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE 25% WHEN YOU BOOK ALL SIX CONCERTS!Six stunning concerts performed by three world class orchestras in one unmissable subscription.

Book all six subscription concerts today and you can:– Save 25%– Avoid queues and secure the seats you want throughout the series– Plan your Perth concert-going in one easy booking!– Spread the cost of your subscription over three months at no extra cost

Subscription Prices:All 6 tickets:Area A – £121.50 Area B – £108.00 Area C – £94.50 Area D – £81.00 Area E – £58.50 Single tickets:Area A – £27.00 Area B – £24.00 Area C – £21.00 Area D – £18.00 Area E – £13.00

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Subscribing to the Perth Concert Series is easy. Simply visit the Box Office in person or phone 01738 621031 to book.*

Priority subscription booking runs until 1 August 2018. Single tickets are available from 15 August 2018.Subscription bookings are only available in person or over the phone. *Booking fees apply.

Please note:• The six subscription concert dates are 26 Sept, 8 Nov, 23 Nov, 22 Feb, 3 April and 2 May.• For concerts by the BBC SSO and RSNO, rows A-D in the Stalls are not available because of a stage extension. • The information carried in this brochure was correct at the time of publishing. The Scottish Orchestras and Horsecross Arts reserve the right to amend artists and programmes for any of the listed concerts if necessary.• Tickets are non-refundable.

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VILDE FRANG PLAYS BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 7.30pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Nielsen Helios Overture Sibelius Symphony No 3 Beethoven Violin Concerto

Enrique Mazzola Conductor Vilde Frang Violin

What a way to open a Season! A melting pot of musical, artistic and creative wealth delivered by Enrique Mazzola – an Italian full of passion and life, with a happy, sunny character.

Sibelius’s Third Symphony oozes with desperate intensity while Nielsen’s Helios is a vivid musical evocation of sunshine shimmering and glittering on the sea.

The warmth continues with one of Norway’s brightest stars Vilde Frang, who joins in for Beethoven’s noble Violin Concerto.

Enrique Mazzola – Conductor by Martin Sigmund

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm

We are delighted to present pre-concert talks as part of the Scottish Orchestras’ Series. Talks take place at 6.45pm and are free to ticket holders only.

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SØNDERGÅRD CONDUCTS POULENC ‘GLORIA’

Thursday 8 November 2018, 7.30pmRoyal Scottish National Orchestra

Prokofiev Symphony No 1 'Classical'Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 Ken Johnston Three movements from 'All Those Men Who Marched Away' Poulenc GloriaThomas Søndergård Conductor Alexander Gavrylyuk Piano Elin Rombo Soprano Glasgow Cambiata RSNO Chorus Frikki Walker Director, Glasgow Cambiata Gregory Batsleer Chorus Director, RSNO Chorus

Music is life – and life always finds a way. Poulenc's Gloria is a celebration – an exuberant shout of joy from a composer who’d seen the best and worst of the 20th century. It’s the inspiring finish to a concert that features two irresistible Russian masterpieces by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky (with the brilliant Alexander Gavrylyuk as soloist), but also, at its heart, a new piece from Ken Johnston as we commemorate the anniversary of World War I, featuring the superb young singers of Glasgow Cambiata.

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm

Gregory Batsleer (Chorus Director, RSNO Chorus) in conversation with Thomas Søndergård (RSNO Music Director).

Alexander Gavrylyuk – Piano by Marco Borggreve

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DEBUSSY ‘LA MER’

Friday 23 November 2018, 7.30pm BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Debussy Nocturnes* Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Debussy La Mer

Thomas Dausgaard Conductor Joaquín Achúcarro Piano Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Voices*

“I have slandered the sea” wrote Claude Debussy. “Today it is beautiful enough to defy all comparisons.” Yet 100 years after his death in 1918, Debussy’s La Mer is surely the most poetic seascape ever painted for an orchestra, the work of a composer whose quiet genius turned music into an art of limitless expressive subtlety. This centenary celebration opens with Nocturnes – Impressionist paintings, transformed into ravishing sound – and includes the Prélude whose unprecedented sensuality scandalised Belle Époque Paris. But there’s darkness as well as light: BBC SSO Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard joins Joaquín Achúcarro in the brooding concerto that Debussy’s compatriot Ravel created for a pianist who’d lost an arm in the Great War.

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm

Thomas Dausgaard and pianist Joaquín Achúcarro discuss tonight’s concert and their musical passions.

Joaquín Achúcarro – Piano by Hannah Taylor

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BRUCKNER SYMPHONY NO 7

Friday 22 February 2019, 7.30pm BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

CPE Bach Symphony in E flat major Stravinsky Violin Concerto Bruckner Symphony No 7

Ilan Volkov Conductor Carolin Widmann Violin

The first thing you sense is a quiet shimmer in the air. And then, like some vast mountain rising from the clouds, the opening melody of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony soars majestically towards the heavens. Bruckner said it came to him in a dream, played by an angel – but when Ilan Volkov brings his searching musical intelligence and emotional insight to bear on this monumental “cathedral in sound”, the results might well be revelatory. Two contrasting – but equally inventive – masterpieces set the scene: an ebullient little symphony from JS Bach’s son Carl Phillip Emmanuel, and the witty, electrically-charged Violin Concerto that Stravinsky intended to be unplayable. No fear on that score from our soloist Carolin Widmann.

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm

Tonight’s conductor Ilan Volkov, discusses the concert.

Carolin Widmann – Violin by Marco Borggreve

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BENEDETTI PLAYS MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTOS NOS 3 & 5Wednesday 3 April 2019, 7.30pm Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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Brilliant, tuneful, rhythmic, exotic – that’s what ‘Turkish’ meant to Mozart, and his violin concerto is a joyous showstopper for Scotland’s favourite violinist.

THE QUILTER CHEVIOT BENEDETTI SERIES

Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 in G, K216* Mozart Symphony No 35 in D, K385 ‘Haffner’ Anna Clyne Within her Arms Mozart Violin Concerto No 5 in A, K219 ‘Turkish’*

Nicola Benedetti Violin/Director* Benjamin Marquise Gilmore Violin/Director

Benedetti play-directs two Mozart Violin Concertos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. These lovely pieces are perfect for her. Mozart probably wrote them for himself to play on his many tours and needless to say, he made sure they had all you could wish for in a showpiece: plenty of fireworks, sublime slow movements and quirky, memorable features like the ‘Turkish’ effects in No 5. Anna Clyne’s Within her Arms has been compared to Barber’s Adagio for Strings for its radiance and intensity – a moving contrast to Mozart’s youthful high spirits.

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm

We are delighted to present pre-concert talks as part of the Scottish Orchestras’ Series. Talks take place at 6.45pm and are free to ticket holders only.

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BEETHOVEN FIVE

Thursday 2 May 2019, 7.30pmRoyal Scottish National Orchestra

Beethoven Coriolan OvertureMozart Flute and Harp Concerto K299 Beethoven Symphony No 5

Nathalie Stutzmann Conductor Katherine Bryan Flute Pippa Tunnell Harp

‘Da-da-da-daaa!’: everyone knows the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Now’s your chance to hear the rest – and it’s gripping: a no-holds-barred emotional struggle from tragedy to triumph, in some of the most dramatic music ever written. It’s perfect for our inspirational guest conductor Nathalie Stutzmann. First, though, comes something a bit gentler, as the RSNO’s Principal Flute Katherine Bryan and harpist Pippa Tunnell perform Mozart’s elegant – but deliciously witty – Concerto for Flute and Harp.

Dedicated to the Lillie Bequest Fund in recognition of the RSNO Foundation’s generous support.

Nathalie Stutzmann – Conductor by Simon Fowler

Pre-concert talk 6.45pm

Peter Dykes (RSNO Associate Principal Oboe) in conversation with Katherine Bryan (RSNO Principal Flute).

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BOOK YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Box office opening timesMon–Sat, 10am–6pm Ticket concessions to Perth Concert Series subscription concerts:

Children aged 16 and underChildren aged 16 and under go free to all six subscription concerts. Children must be accompanied by a paying adult. Maximum of two free children’s tickets per adult. Additional children £6 each.

Under 26s and students£6 tickets are available for people aged 26 and under or who are in full-time education. Appropriate identification may be required.

School parties One free adult ticket with every 10 school pupils (advance bookings only). Subject to availability..

Registered DisabledAnyone who is registered disabled is entitled to 50% off ticket prices. Free tickets are available for full-time carers. Please ask at the box office.

Box office chargesSubscriptions are subject to a £1.50 booking fee. Single tickets are subject to a £1.50 booking fee per ticket. Ticket postage is £1.

Subscribe and save! Book all six subscription concerts and you can save 25%. See page 3 for details.

Phone: 01738 621031 Online: www.horsecross.co.uk In person and by post: Perth Concert Hall Box Office, Mill Street Perth PH1 5HZ.

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MORE GREAT CONCERTS FOR YOU TO ENJOY!

*Concession price applies to: students, under 26s, unemployed and disabled.**Kids go FREE to this show. Two 16 and unders go free with a paying adult. To trigger this offer insert your children aged 16 and under tickets into your basket and the discount will be applied automatically.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 7.30pm

RSNO CHRISTMAS CONCERT FEATURING ‘THE SNOWMAN’Royal Scottish National OrchestraWe’re walking in the air… It isn’t Christmas until The Snowman has taken you on his magical journey through the winter sky. Enjoy this special showing of the festive classic on the large screen, accompanied live by the RSNO and narrated by our guest presenter Jamie MacDougall. Perfect for the whole family, join us for our Christmas party filled with seasonal favourites, carols old and new – and, of course, a chance for everyone to sing along!

Matthew Hamilton Conductor Jamie MacDougall Presenter RSNO Chorus

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 7.30pm RUSSIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAA fantastic evening of rich Russian romanticism with a great international orchestra. Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony wears its heart on its sleeve with lush melodies and one of the most gorgeous slow movements ever composed. Chloë Hanslip plays Prokofiev’s ravishing first Violin Concerto and the programme is completed with the yearning beauty of a suite of movements from Tchaikovsky’s evergreen Swan Lake.

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 Rachmaninov Symphony No 2

Valentin Uryupin Conductor Chloë Hanslip Violin

£32, £28, £20; concessions* £30, £26, £18 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket) £6 under 26s/students/Young Scot cardholders

KIDS GO FREE to this show**

£30.50, £24.50, £18.50; concessions* £16.50, £13.50, £10.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket)

© Snowman Enterprises Ltd 2018

Chloë Hanslip – Violin by Benjamin Ealovega

Sponsored by ScotRail

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Saturday 5 January 2019, 3.00pm VIENNESE NEW YEAR GALA CONCERT Scottish Chamber OrchestraWelcome 2019 in sparkling style with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra! This New Year’s concert has all your favourite Viennese Waltzes and Polkas from the Strauss family, guaranteed to give you a skip in your step to start the year feeling upbeat. Along with some favourite violin solos from the exquisite Stephanie Gonley, young British conductor Duncan Ward adds a Bohemian twist with folk-inspired music from Smetana’s sparkling comic opera The Bartered Bride and Slavonic Dances by Dvořák.

Weber (orch Berlioz) Invitation to the Dance Dvořák Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 2 Ravel Tzigane Kodály Dances of Galanta Smetana Three Dances from The Bartered Bride Sibelius Valse Lyrique Eduard Strauss Bahn Frei J Strauss Tritsch-Tratsch Polka J Strauss Blue Danube Waltz

Duncan Ward Conductor Stephanie Gonley Violin

£29, £25.50, £22.50, £19.50, £15; no concessions (inc £1.50 booking fee) per ticket) KIDS GO FREE to this show**

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 7.00pm

RSNO PROM WITH THE AYOUB SISTERS Royal Scottish National OrchestraA fantastic and informal feast of symphonic music for the summer. The brilliant Ayoub Sisters join the RSNO, Classic FM presenter Anne-Marie Minhall and conductor Timothy Redmond in a fabulous evening of some of the greatest and most popular classical music ever written. Seating in the hall will include both cabaret and promenade seating as well as standard and we anticipate a relaxed evening of fabulous music.

Shostakovich Festive Overture Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis Vaughan Williams Greensleeves Monti Czardas Trad Misirlou Wagner Ride of the Valkyrie Sibelius Finlandia Tchaikovsky Excerpts from ‘Swan Lake’ Arnold Four Scottish Dances Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture

Ayoub Sisters – Violin/Cello

Collection in aid of Marie Curie

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£29.50, £18.50, £13.50; concessions* £27.50, £16.50, £11.50 (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket) students/Young Scot £6

Credit: Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants. Written by Giles Andreae, Illustrated by Korky Paul

Sunday 10 February 2019, 2.30pm FAMILY CONCERT – SIR SCALLYWAG AND THE GOLDEN UNDERPANTSScottish Chamber OrchestraRissmann Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants Chris Jarvis Narrator Korky Paul Illustrator

When King Colin’s golden underpants go missing and the royal bottom is bared, it’s Sir Scallywag to the rescue! Brave and bold, courageous and true, he’s the perfect knight for the job… and what does it matter that he’s only six?!

Alongside other pieces including extracts from Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, Sir Scallywag features lots of audience participation and illustrated projections (including a brief appearance of the King’s bare bottom!). This laugh-out-loud musical adventure is by composer Paul Rissmann, based on the book by Giles Andreae, illustrated by Korky Paul and published by Puffin, Penguin Books Ltd.

Join us for Sir Scallywag inspired events before the concert!More details from www.sco.org.uk/connect

SIR SCALLYWAG AND THE GOLDEN UNDERPANTS WORKSHOPS Look out for opportunities to learn Sir Scallywag songs and to try out multi-coloured orchestral instruments at SCO family and schools workshops. At venues in and around Perth, January and February 2019.

Recommended for children age 3+ Running time: approx 50mins

Adults £12.50, children £6, no concessions (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket). Students/Young Scot £6

“King Colin wasn’t clever and King Colin wasn’t bold, but what made King Colin special were his underpants of gold!”

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Sponsored by Baillie Gifford

*Concession price applies to: students, under 26s, unemployed and disabled.**Kids go FREE to this show. Two 16 and unders go free with a paying adult. To trigger this offer insert your children aged 16 and under tickets into your basket and the discount will be applied automatically.

The information carried in this brochure was correct at the time of publishing. The Scottish Orchestras and Horsecross Arts reserve the right to amend artists and programmes for any of the listed concerts if necessary.

RSNO Scottish Charity No SC010702 and SCO Scottish Charity No SC015039. The Perth Concert Series has been made possible with generous financial support from The Gannochy Trust and Perth and Kinross Council. The SCO and RSNO receive funding from the Scottish Government. Concerts by the BBC SSO are scheduled to be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 7.30pm

VILDE FRANG PLAYS BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Thursday 8 November 2018, 7.30pm

SØNDERGÅRD CONDUCTS POULENC ‘GLORIA’Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Friday 23 November 2018, 7.30pm DEBUSSY ‘LA MER’ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Friday 22 February 2019, 7.30pm

BRUCKNER SYMPHONY NO 7BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday 3 April 2019, 7.30pm

BENEDETTI PLAYS MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTOS NOS 3 & 5Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Thursday 2 May 2019, 7.30pm

BEETHOVEN FIVE Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 7.30pm

RUSSIAN STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 7.30pm

RSNO CHRISTMAS CONCERT FEATURING ‘THE SNOWMAN’ Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Saturday 5 January 2019, 3.00pm

VIENNESE NEW YEAR GALA CONCERTScottish Chamber Orchestra

Sunday 10 February 2019, 2.30pm

FAMILY CONCERT – SIR SCALLYWAG AND THE GOLDEN UNDERPANTSScottish Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 7.00pm

RSNO PROM WITH THE AYOUB SISTERS Royal Scottish National Orchestra