BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 2

19:30

Peter Ablinger QUARTZ for high orchestra
BBC Commission, World Premiere

Enno Poppe Altbau
UK Premiere

-Interval-

Christopher Fox/Rhodri Davies Topophony*
World Premiere

Rhodri Davies harp*
Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

One of the most innovative and influential composers in the field of new music today, Peter Ablinger’s BBC Commission, Quartz, about the passing of time, opens the second orchestral concert. German composer Enno Poppe’s works have been acclaimed for their “rhythmic inventiveness and harmonic clarity” and Altbau receives its first UK outing since its composition in 2007/8. The second part of the concert is given over to Topophony, a new work created by composer Christopher Fox and Rhodri Davies, where the soloist will spontaneously compose his part to accompany a pre-written orchestral score.

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As with the last two editions of Tectonics Glasgow, 2015 brings together music and musicians that span a dizzyingly broad spectrum of sounds that make up, in some sense, what contemporary music in the 21st century might sound like. Again we are encouraged by the support the festival has garnered from all quarters, so it’s clear that there is a desire out there to discover new things.

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