Nielsen: Little Suite Op1
Sibelius: Rakastava
Grieg: Holberg Suite

John Storgårds: conductor; SCO Strings

Around 1900, Scandinavian music flowers as it had never done before. Suddenly every one of the Nordic nations boasted a composer of international fame, and writing irresistibly well for strings, seems to have been an instinctive gift for all of them. Three (from Denmark, Finland and Norway) are featured here: Sibelius tells a love story without words, Grieg pays tribute to the dances of olden time while Nielsen’s Little Suite was originally presented as being by “Mr Carl Nielsen, whom nobody knows.” How quickly that was to change!

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PLEASE NOTE: This event takes place at St Cuthbert’s Parish Church, 5 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2EP.
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