SCO 2024/25: Parabola

PARABOLA

Part of ‘New Dimensions’ Series

BRITTEN Young Apollo

ADES Märchentänze

ANDRES Piano Concerto ‘The Blind Banister’

BEAMISH Whitescape

HAYDN Symphony No 88

Pekka Kuusisto Conductor / Violin

Simon Crawford-Phillips Conductor / Piano

Dolphin Boy DJ

Pekka Kuusisto and British pianist/conductor Simon Crawford-Phillips, invite you – and the SCO’s musicians – on an arc through time and musical styles in this joyfully eclectic programme.

The young Britten blended chamber and orchestral music in a portrait of his first love in Young Apollo, while Thomas Adès draws on English folk music in the fairytale dances he composed for Kuusisto. New York composer Timo Andres looks to outdo Beethoven in his flamboyant piano concerto The Blind Banister, and Sally Beamish salutes Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley in her dream-inspired Whitescape. To close, Kuusisto travels back to the 18th century, to the charm and elegance of one of Haydn’s wittiest symphonies.

Pekka Kuusisto Visiting Artist Chair kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow

In association with The Skinny.