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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
🎺🎻🥁 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: https://t.co/RKxHA1Gc8U
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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 week’s concert is dedicated to the memory of Laura Samuel, Leader of @BBCSSO & great friend of the RSNO. As we perform Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No1 & Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor, our thoughts will be with Laura’s family & friends. 📸
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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...it’s 1805 and Beethoven drops a ground-breaking symphony dedicated to the hero of his time, Napoleon.
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🎉 @BBCRadioScot's ‘Young Classical Musician’ competition returns for its second year We’re looking for talented musicians aged between 18 & 24 to take part in this year’s competition, and three finalists will perform with BBC SSO in June 2025 Deadline: 6 Jan 2025, 12:00 noon
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“Smoky mystery, ballistic bullishness, sharp-scented lyricism, even some cartoon-like parody informed [Tom] Borrow’s persuasive, fundamentally pugnacious performance” - @BBCSSO / Sir Mark Elder.
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City Halls, Glasgow Of all Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos, No 2 is perhaps the most tantalising. You wonder what was going on in the Russian compeer’s mind choosing to confront the original 1913 St Pe…
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Paddy is The One and Only!! ♥️ Over £7.8 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 👏 #PaddyUltra
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#TomBorrow dazzles in #Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto, and an original #SleepingBeauty suite says the fairy-tale season is upon us in style. @BBCSSO with Sir #MarkElder. https://t.co/A4uWaRPhy3
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Prokofiev’s 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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✨ Sir Mark Elder rehearses Tchaikovsky’s ballet score ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ ahead of Thursday evening's live @BBCRadio3 broadcast from #Glasgow City Halls. Tickets still remaining! #Tchaikovsky #Orchestra #SleepingBeauty #Ballet
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🌌 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 & Schumann’s most personal symphony: strong emotions, spoken with love. https://t.co/L9tN6I93bl
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From 10.30pm @BBCRadio3, Kate Molleson presents two performances from Thursday's BBC SSO concert @NordicMusicDays Britta Byström’s ‘Voyages extraordinaries’ & Maja S.K. Ratkje’s ‘Considering 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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🎶 Tonight in Glasgow, Emilia Hoving conducts “An Extraordinary Voyage!" at @nordicmusicdays 2024 With contemporary music from the Nordic region, incl. composers Hildur Guðnadóttir, Britta Byström, Eli Tausen á Lava & trombone concerto by Maja S.K. Ratkje with Stephen Menotti 👏
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Hugely looking forward to this week’s Nordic Music Days festival in Glasgow - coming to Scotland for the first time in its 136 year history. A veritable smorgasbord of music, film, arts and friendship. Don’t miss it! 🏴🇬🇱🇫🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪 https://t.co/iBhNoc3Vcz
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Applications for study at @RCStweets for the MMus Conducting course remain open until 2 December. Come to study in Glasgow, where you will work with Prof Martyn Brabbins, RCS ensembles & our professional partners @BBCSSO @RSNO @ScottishOpera @HEB_Ensemble
https://t.co/dUepYHaNyx
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✨ 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. 🎟️ https://t.co/SCPncoPJcL
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🎻 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, Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, and...
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🎶 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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Great article about @NordicMusicDays festival in Glasgow at https://t.co/mw1UF83Gf1👇
https://t.co/L7URWML51M
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