UPDATE Mezzo soprano Susan Bickley will be performing in place of Karen Cargill.

Battistelli: Fair is foul, foul is fair
Berio: Folk Songs
Harper (Ed.arr Cresswell): Pastoral world premiere SCO commission
Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes (A time there was)

Garry Walker: conductor; Susan Bickley: mezzo soprano

A literary theme links this programme. One of the hits of the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival, Battistelli’s is a corker of a piece vividly evoking the storm and supernatural terror of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Sorrow touches the premiere of Edward Harper’s Pastoral, which is a setting of Burns’ poetry. When he died in 2009, Harper was working o a new symphony for the SCO and his friend Lyell Cresswell has completed this single movement from his manuscript in tribute. Mezzo Karen Cargill, one of Scotland’s brightest stars, also sings traditional folk songs arranged by Berio.

Pre-Concert Talk: 6.30pm (Free to ticket holders). Lyell Cresswell in conversation with Dr Michael Downes, Director of Music at the University of St Andrews.

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