From the turmoil of conflict and defiance against oppression – to the blazing flames of joy.

Join award-winning Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for a concert of high drama and deep emotion.

It wasn’t Shakespeare’s Coriolanus that inspired Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, though the music tells the same story – of one man’s struggles between conflict and love – in some of the composer’s fieriest music. Shostakovich, by contrast, wrote his Eighth String Quartet – which he later enlarged into his Chamber Symphony – at a time of great oppression from the Soviet state. It’s impossible not to feel profoundly moved by its music of pathos, struggle and furious determination.

Poska’s compatriot Erkki-Sven Tüür burns away the turmoil with the purifying fire of his dazzling Flamma. The concert ends with Beethoven’s sunniest, most freewheeling Symphony – written in tribute to the power of optimism in the face of his encroaching deafness.

Additional ticket information

Tickets for the concert in Haddington are available from Lammermuir Festival only.

Tickets for the concert in Greenock are also available in person from The Beacon Arts Centre: Custom House Quay, Greenock, PA15 1HJ.

Tickets for Blair Castle, Linlithgow and Greenock can also be booked by phone on the 0131 557 6800 (SCO Office).