Perth Concert Series: BBC SSO

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody for orchestra
MacMillan Viola Concerto
Elgar Symphony No 2

Lawrence Power, Viola
Richard Farnes, Conductor

Elgar's magnificent Second Symphony begins in a great, glowing surge of confidence and pride, until the shadows darken, and we hear a great artist laying bare his soul with an intensity and truth unprecedented in British music. It's unforgettable: an emotional autobiography on a par with Mahler, and a fitting counterpart to the terrible beauty of Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad, performed to mark the 100th anniversary of its composer's death on the Somme. Sir James MacMillan's new Viola Concerto, meanwhile, weds the dusky sound of the viola to orchestral writing of fiery brilliance and dark passion. Richard Farnes conducts its dedicatee, Lawrence Power.

Pre-concert Talk: 6.45pm
With Lawrence Power in conversation
(free to ticket holders)

£27, £24, £21, £18, £13.50; no concessions (inc £1.50 booking fee per ticket)
Students £6
Disabled discount available, contact the Box Office for more information.
Kids go FREE to this show - two 16 and unders go free with a paying adult, contact the Box Office on 01738 621031 to book.

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