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An afternoon with Pekka & friends

Matinee

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Programme

  • SCHUBERT

    Sonatina in D major

  • FAURÉ

    Cello Sonata in G minor

  • CLARA SCHUMANN

    Three Romances

  • MARTINU

    Sonata for flute, violin and piano

  • STRAVINSKY

    The Soldier’s Tale Suite

Pekka Kuusisto Violin
Simon Crawford-Phillips Piano
André Cebrián Flute
Maximilano Martín Clarinet
Philip Higham Cello

Get up close with Finnish violin superstar Pekka Kuusisto in this intimate chamber afternoon. He’s joined by regular collaborator Simon Crawford-Phillips on piano, plus some of the SCO’s brilliant principal players, in music to charm, excite and entertain.

There’s entrancing melody courtesy of Schubert’s elegant early Sonatina and Fauré’s exquisite Cello Sonata, plus passion from Clara Schumann’s adventurous Romances, and bustling Parisian energy in Martinů’s rarely-heard sonata. Kuusisto brings the concert to an exuberant conclusion with music from Stravinsky’s Faustian parable of a soldier’s struggles with the Devil for his very soul – and his beloved violin.

Pekka Kuusisto Visiting Artist Chair kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow

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