Scottish
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| "Scotland's most exciting orchestra" | |
| Leader - Richard Gratwick | Conductor - Neil Mantle, MBE |
A warm welcome to our 2025-2026 season! We continue our
highly successful Rachmaninoff series with his epic third concerto—one
of the most technically demanding works in the entire piano repertoire.
Edinburgh native virtuoso Geoffrey Duce is now resident in the USA, where
he is professor in the piano faculty at Illinois State University. We
are delighted to be welcoming him back to perform this titanic
masterpiece with us!
The music of our shores has always been strongly
represented in Scottish Sinfonia’s concerts, and on this occasion we
commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Master of The
Queen’s Music, Sir Arthur Bliss. The Colour Symphony was commissioned
by Elgar, no less, for the 1922 Three Choirs Festival. It was inspired
by a book on Heraldry where the symbolic meanings are associated with
various colours: purple, red, blue and green. It is a work rich in melody
and poetry and we offer you a rare opportunity to hear it.
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