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  1. Composer Ruth Gipps leaning forward with both hands gently touching her face.

    GIPPS Seascape

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    Digital Season

    Online
    Take a dip in the watery wonders of Gipps’s passionate music - and discover her pastoral idyll 'Cringlemire Garden' played live in February.
  2. Ivan Podyomov smiling, and holding his oboe, against a dark background with bright blue, red, and green shapes.

    Mozart Oboe Concerto

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    Dumfries
    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Discover Mozart’s song-like Oboe Concerto in the hands of Ivan Podyomov, principal oboist at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
  3. Conductor Andrew Manze with his baton raised, and baritone Roderick Williams singing, against a dark background with bright yellow, green, and pink shapes.

    Fauré Requiem

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    Choral

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Fauré’s hushed prayer for the departed, from outstanding British baritone Roderick Williams, conductor Andrew Manze and the SCO Chorus.
  4. Violinist Pekka Kuusisto standing and playing his violin against a dark background with bright green, blue, and pink shapes.

    Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

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    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Outstanding Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto directs and plays one of the best-loved masterpieces in the Romantic violin repertoire.
  5. Pekka Kuusisto strumming his violin in front of a background with bright pink, green, and blue waves.

    An afternoon with Pekka & friends

    Matinee

    Edinburgh
    Get up close with Finnish violin superstar Pekka Kuusisto in this intimate chamber afternoon.
  6. Pekka Kuusisto gently strumming his violin with eyes closed, set against a gradient background of blue, pink, and orange waves.

    Parabola

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    New Dimensions

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Join Pekka Kuusisto and Simon Crawford-Phillips on an arc through time and musical styles, from Britten to Adès, Beamish to Haydn.
  7. SCO Principal Double Bass Nikita Naumov playing his instrument in front of a bright green background with dark green and light pink shapes.

    Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony

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    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Mark Wigglesworth conducts Beethoven’s hymn of wonder to the natural world, with SCO Principal Nikita Naumov as soloist in Eötvös’s Aurora.
  8. Violinist Isabelle van Keulen smiling at the camera, holding her instrument, against a dark background with light blue and pink shapes.

    Schumann & Schubert

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    St Andrews
    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Isabelle van Keulen takes the reins of the SCO for the lyrical Violin Concerto by Robert Schumann, alongside Schubert’s Third Symphony.
  9. Conductor François Leleux smiling at the camera, holding the baton, against a dark background with shapes in different shades of green.

    Mozart & Strauss

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    Matinee

    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Aberdeen
    Deeply charismatic oboist and conductor François Leleux directs Mozart’s cheeky Bassoon Concerto, and music by the teenage Richard Strauss.
  10. Chorus members photographed from above, holding their sheet music.

    Seven Last Words

    Choral

    Edinburgh
    A choral contemplation of loss and rebirth from Scotland’s greatest living composer, Sir James MacMillan, performed by the SCO Chorus.
  11. Shot from behind a violinist playing to the audience at a dementia-friendly concert.

    Tea Dance Concerts

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    Edinburgh
    Dumfries
    Enjoy an afternoon of music and join our musicians as they perform a programme designed especially for people living with dementia.
  12. Violinist Lorenza Borrani smiling at the camera, holding her instrument against a dark grey and light pink background.

    Mozart Sinfonia Concertante

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    St Andrews
    Edinburgh
    Glasgow
    Lorenza Borrani teams up with SCO Principal Violist Max Mandel in what many consider Mozart’s finest creation: the Sinfonia concertante.