91热爆 SSO 2015-16 Season Edinburgh International Festival - The Opening Concert - 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra

8 Aug 2015, Usher Hall, Edinburgh

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91热爆 SSO 2015-16 Season Edinburgh International Festival - The Opening Concert

Edinburgh International Festival - The Opening Concert

19:30 Sat 8 Aug 2015 Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Donald Runnicles performs a concert of rich romantic works to open the Edinburgh International Festival

Programme

- - Johannes Brahms
  - Song of the Fates
  - Liebeslieder Waltzer (orch. Brahms)
  - Song of Destiny
- - Richard Strauss
  - Ein Heldenleben

Performers

91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles
conductor
conductor

Composers

Concert information

A rich programme of powerful and profoundly personal music, performed by the 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra under its commanding Chief Conductor, Donald Runnicles, renowned worldwide for his passionate accounts of Romantic works.

Monstrously egotistical for some, searingly intense for others, Strauss鈥檚 grand autobiographical Ein Heldenleben is a vivid portrait of a hero鈥檚 life, his struggles against adversity and his ultimate fulfilment, conveyed in some of the composer鈥檚 most expressive and evocative music.

Beforehand, Runnicles directs the Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus in glowingly Romantic choral works by Brahms, from the brooding Gesang der Parzen to the blissful serenity of the Schickalslied, by way of the charming lyricism and disarming tunefulness of the Liebeslieder Waltzer.

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