Dec 13

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Miraculous Maestros: Bartok and Hindemith

With Béla Bartók, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Paul Hindemith at City Halls: Grand Hall

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Date

Thursday 13 December 2012 at 7:30pm

Location

City Halls: Grand Hall
Candleriggs, Glasgow, G1 1NQ, United Kingdom

Tel: 0141 353 8000

Web: http://www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

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http://www.glasgowconcerthalls.com/whatson/event/124367-BBC-Scottish-Symphony-Orchestra-Miraculous-Maestros:-Bartok-and-Hindemith

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Bartók and Hindemith both liked to present an austere face to the world. History, though, had different ideas. Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin scandalised inter-war Hungary, and his riotous First Piano Concerto left audiences reeling. Hindemith, meanwhile, found himself writing a heartfelt elegy for King George V and a baton-twirling showstopper for the wartime US audience (even if he did call it “Symphonic Metamorphosis”). Martyn Brabbins conducts a programme that startles one moment, and charms the next with the inimitable Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen and the BBC SSO’s superb principal viola, Scott Dickinson.

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