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Mozart & Strauss

Matinee

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Programme

  • ZEDGINIDZE

    Symphony No 1 (Scottish Premiere)*

  • MOZART

    Bassoon Concerto

  • R STRAUSS

    Serenade for Winds, Op 7

  • R STRAUSS

    Symphony No.1 in D minor

PLEASE NOTE THESE CONCERTS START AT 2PM

François Leleux Conductor / Oboe
Cerys Ambrose-Evans Bassoon

Unfailingly charming and breathtakingly expressive, François Leleux delivers profound musical insights and high drama as both oboist and conductor. His matinee programme with the SCO is one of discoveries, written entirely by teenage composers.

SCO Principal Bassoon Cerys Ambrose-Evans is the soloist in the expressive, cheeky concerto that Mozart composed aged 18, while Richard Strauss blends influences from Mozart and Mendelssohn in the richly lyrical Serenade for 13 wind instruments he wrote as a 17-year-old. His passionate, powerful Symphony comes from a year earlier, but Georgian teenager Tsotne Zédginidze – born as recently as 2009 – has already been celebrated as a major musical prodigy.

*Commissioned by Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra

Programme Notes

Our printed programme notes are available for purchase at each concert, or you can read them for free online, available the day before the first performance of the week.

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