SCO 25/26: Carmina Gadelica

The SCO’s internationally renowned Wind Soloists join forces with some of Scotland’s most accomplished young players for a kaleidoscopic concert of wit and wild imagination – with Mozart rediscovered amid some distinctively Scottish landscapes.

SCO Principal Flute André Cebrián follows in a centuries-old tradition in reworking music from Mozart’s sparkling operas for the velvety richness of a wind ensemble, while Jonathan Dove imagines 'The Marriage of Figaro' taking place among the blooms and bushes of a very English garden. 

By way of contrast, Sir James MacMillan explores an Irish love song in his early, rarely heard 'Untold', while SCO Associate Composer Jay Capperauld takes inspiration from Gaelic hymns, incantations and songs in his striking new wind dectet, 'Carmina Gadelica'. 

Artists

SCO Wind Soloists
RCS Wind Students

Programme

MOZART arr CEBRIÁN Music from The Marriage of Figaro
MACMILLAN Untold
CAPPERAULD Carmina Gadelica
DOVE Figures in the Garden
MOZART Sextet in B-flat K 270
MENDELSSOHN arr. CEBRIÁN Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Presented by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra