A new Sunday Classics programme has just been unveiled for the Usher Hall beginning on 14 October 2018. Tickets are on sale from today.
If we start at the end then you will perhaps understand that this is going to be something special to entertain you over the winter. Next June the RSNO will play The Planets – An HD Odyssey at the final concert while a film created by award winning producer director Duncan Copp and NASA is shown on the big screen.
The images from NASA’s space exploration will be shown along with other iconic space classics such as Strauss’s Blue Danube Waltz from 2001: A Space Odyssey and John Williams’ Star Wars theme.
At the end of 2018 there is a special concert with War Horse : The Story in Concert – Centenary Concert with music by the RSNO and narration by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo.
[tweet_box design=”default”]The music is wide and varied and the soloists and orchestras come from far and wide in the Usher Hall Sunday Classics Programme[/tweet_box]
Councillor Donald Wilson, Culture and Communities Convener, said: “Where better to enjoy a live symphony than a relaxing Sunday afternoon at the Usher Hall? Designed and built with classical music in mind over 100 years ago, the tradition of concert-going at Edinburgh’s most stunning indoor venue continues as strongly as ever.
“It’s a genuine pleasure to sit back in the impressive auditorium and lose yourself in the music, and this new programme of Sunday Classics will feature first-class orchestras from around the world outside the usual Festival period. Plus, with special rates for students and those out of work, and free tickets for under 16s, the Usher Hall is helping to make classical music accessible to all.”
2018/19 SUNDAY CLASSICS SEASON – FULL LISTINGS:
Date: Sunday 14 October 2018, 3pm
Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Valentin Uryupin
Soloist: Barry Douglas (piano)
Programme: Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake Suite
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 2
Date: Sunday 28 October 2018, 7.30pm
Orchestra: Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra
Conductor: Yutaka Sado
Soloist: Angela Hewitt (piano)
Programme: Bernstein – On the Town: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5
Sibelius – Symphony No. 5
Date: Sunday 18 November 2018, 3pm
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor: David Charles Abell
Narrator: Michael Morpurgo
Programme: War Horse: The Story in Concert – Centenary Concert
Date: Sunday 27 January 2019, 3pm
Orchestra: St Petersburg Philharmonic
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Soloist: Freddy Kempf (piano)
Programme: Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 2
Mahler – Symphony No. 4
Date: Sunday 24 February 2019, 3pm
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of India
Conductor: Martyn Brabbins
Soloist: Marat Bisengaliev (violin)
Programme: Weber – Oberon Overture
Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1 in G
Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade
Date: Sunday 7 April 2019, 3pm
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Director & Soloist: Pinchas Zukerman (conductor and violin)
Programme: Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Elgar Enigma Variations
Beethoven Violin Concerto
Date: Sunday 14 April 2019, 3pm
Orchestra: Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Pietari Inkinen
Soloist: John Lill (piano)
Programme: Rautavaara – Opener
Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3
Takemitsu – Requiem for Strings
Sibelius – Symphony No. 2
Date: Sunday 12 May 2019, 3pm
Orchestra: Russian Philharmonic of Novosibirsk
Conductor: Thomas Sanderling
Soloist: Valentina Lisitsa (piano)
Programme: Rimsky Korsakov – Capriccio Espagnol
Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Variations
Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
Date: Sunday 16 June 2019, 3pm
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor: Ben Palmer
Programme: The Planets – An HD Odyssey:
Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra (opening)
Johann Strauss II Blue Danube Waltz
J S Bach (orch. Stokowski) Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (2nd movement)
Williams Main Theme from Star Wars
Holst The Planets
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