Hallucinations and wild imaginings: join Finnish musical pioneer Pekka Kuusisto on a journey into the strange and the wonderful in the second concert in his Scottish Chamber Orchestra residency.
With adulation for his Peter Grimes last year at London’s Royal Opera House, Allan Clayton is the most exciting British tenor of the moment – and one of our most celebrated interpreters of Britten. He’s the soloist amid the fanfares, parades and sensual visions of Britten’s larger than life Les Illuminations, settings of phantasmagorical verse by French poet Arthur Rimbaud.
There’s more Gallic surrealism in the witty Songs for tenor, violin and drone by New York based Nico Muhly, and Kuusisto is the soloist in the long awaited Scottish premiere of his friend and colleague’s dashing, exuberant violin concerto Shrink. In between, Haydn’s final, grandest and most joyful Symphony, written expressly to surprise and delight.
Shrink, concerto for violin and strings, by Nico Muhly, was co-commissioned by Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.