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Performing the most thrilling & thought-provoking music the orchestral world has to offer. Broadcasting on BBC Radio, TV, Sounds & iPlayer!
Glasgow City Halls, Scotland.
Joined September 2009
đșđ»đ„ Music-makers and music-lovers united. Join us across Scotland and experience the most thrilling, hopeful & thought-provoking music that the orchestral world has to offer. Our 24/25 concerts in Aberdeen, Edinburgh & Glasgow have been announced:
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Our friends at the RSNO have made the kind gesture of dedicating their concert this week to the memory of our Leader, Laura Samuel. Thank you RSNO, as well as our audiences and the wider music community, for expressing your condolences and sharing beautiful tributes to Laura.
This weekâs concert is dedicated to the memory of Laura Samuel, Leader of @BBCSSO & great friend of the RSNO. As we perform Tchaikovskyâs Swan Lake, Beethovenâs Piano Concerto No1 & Coleridge-Taylorâs Ballade in A minor, our thoughts will be with Lauraâs family & friends. đž
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Tonight in #Glasgow, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, Donghoon Shin's Cello Concerto "Night Surrender" with soloist Jaemin Han, and a potent tribute to Harrison Birtwistle, in what would have been the composer's 90th birthday year.
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Imagine...itâs 1805 and Beethoven drops a ground-breaking symphony dedicated to the hero of his time, Napoleon.
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đ @BBCRadioScot's âYoung Classical Musicianâ competition returns for its second year. Weâre looking for talented musicians aged between 18 & 24 to take part in this yearâs competition, and three finalists will perform with BBC SSO in June 2025. Deadline: 6 Jan 2025, 12:00 noon
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RT @VoxCarnyx: Sunday matinee panache in @GCHalls as @BBCSSO prepares for @bbcproms tour to South Korea
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City Halls, Glasgow The opening concert in this seasonâs Sunday matinee series by the BBC SSO was a colourful affair, showcasing the high drama of Berliozâ Symphonie fantastique and featuring the sâŠ
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RT @VoxCarnyx: âSmoky mystery, ballistic bullishness, sharp-scented lyricism, even some cartoon-like parody informed [Tom] Borrowâs persuasâŠ.
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City Halls, Glasgow Of all Prokofievâs Piano Concertos, No 2 is perhaps the most tantalising. You wonder what was going on in the Russian compeerâs mind choosing to confront the original 1913 St PeâŠ
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Paddy is The One and Only!! â„ïž Over ÂŁ7.8 million raised by lunchtime today for @BBCCiN. @BBCRadio2's Zoe Ball, Chesney Hawkes & BBC SSO musicians welcomed Paddy & his Raleigh Chopper bike to Glasgow after a journey of 300 miles đ #PaddyUltra
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RT @Dutch2312: #TomBorrow dazzles in #Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto, and an original #SleepingBeauty suite says the fairy-tale season is uâŠ.
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Prokofievâs ferociously virtuosic Second #Piano Concerto takes flight in the hands of former @BBCRadio3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow. Sir Mark Elder conducts tonight's live broadcast from Glasgow on BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds!
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âš Sir Mark Elder rehearses Tchaikovskyâs ballet score âThe Sleeping Beautyâ ahead of Thursday evening's live @BBCRadio3 broadcast from #Glasgow City Halls. Tickets still remaining!. #Tchaikovsky #Orchestra #SleepingBeauty #Ballet
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đ Tonight in Glasgow & Friday in Perth, tenor Mark Padmore performs evocative song cycles by two of the 20th century's great composers. Plus, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Mozart 34 & Schumannâs most personal symphony: strong emotions, spoken with love.
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From 10.30pm @BBCRadio3, Kate Molleson presents two performances from Thursday's BBC SSO concert @NordicMusicDays. Britta Byströmâs âVoyages extraordinariesâ & Maja S.K. Ratkjeâs âConsidering Icarus' for trombone & orchestra (soloist Stephen Menotti)
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Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.
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đ¶ Tonight in Glasgow, Emilia Hoving conducts âAn Extraordinary Voyage!" at @nordicmusicdays 2024. With contemporary music from the Nordic region, incl. composers Hildur GuĂ°nadĂłttir, Britta Byström, Eli Tausen ĂĄ Lava & trombone concerto by Maja S.K. Ratkje with Stephen Menotti đ
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RT @MichaelJBawtree: Hugely looking forward to this weekâs Nordic Music Days festival in Glasgow - coming to Scotland for the first time inâŠ.
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RT @RCSconducting: Applications for study at @RCStweets for the MMus Conducting course remain open until 2 December. Come to study in GlasgâŠ.
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âš This week, experience the sound of Nordic landscapes at venues across #Glasgow!. For the first time in 136 years, one of the world's longest running festivals for contemporary classical music @NordicMusicDays comes to Scotland. đïž
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đ» Last few tickets remaining for tonight's concert in #Oban, featuring @ElenaUrioste and conducted by Riley Court-Wood
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Hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Corran Halls, wrapping up a week of community activities in Oban! Enjoy Vaughan Williams with violinist Elena Urioste, Mendelssohnâs Scottish Symphony, and...
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đ¶ This week in #Oban, our Associate Artist Lucy Drever leads a brilliant range of creative workshops & performances for primary and secondary schoolchildren, as well as musical storytelling sessions for families with young children!. #creativity #musicmaking #orchestra #Argyll
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