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  1. A historic photograph of Samuel Taylor-Coleridge sitting in a chair, wearing a suit.

    Digital Season: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Novelletten

    17 October 2024

    Read the programme note for our online performance of Coleridge-Taylor's Novelletten Nos 1 & 3.
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  2. André Cebrián and Marta Gómez play the flute sitting in the SCO desks

    The flute concerto

    14 October 2024

    In the third installment of our series looking at the concerto, it's the turn of the SCO flautists to recommend their favourites.
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  3. Three Swedish composers: Bellman (in the middle, in 18th century dress) is playing the cittern, with formal photographs of Berwald to his left and Atterberg to his right

    Not just Eurovision: an introduction to Swedish music

    7 October 2024

    Wherein we challenge you to think past 'Waterloo' and 'Mamma mia' ...
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  4. Ryan Bancroft: "a conversation with the leader of a Finnish orchestra changed how I heard Sibelius"

    30 September 2024

    We speak to conductor Ryan Bancroft about music from (his not quite native) Scotland and Scandinavia.
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  5. Max Mandel plays the viola, concentrating hard on the sheet music. He wears a black suit and tie.

    The viola concerto

    23 September 2024

    Our examination of the concerto continues with the viola, whose potential as a solo instrument was long unrecognised.
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  6. Three pictures: a man leans forward, his elbows on some sheet music; a man with a large belly, wearing a black carnival mask; a caricature sketch of a man in a wig

    Pulcinella and the dangers of (mis)attribution

    16 September 2024

    Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella is based on music by Pergolesi. Or is it?
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  7. Two Black men (the first an 18th century gentleman, the second in a formal Edwardian suit) and a black woman in profile

    The first Black composers

    9 September 2024

    To celebrate Black History Month, we look at the early history of Black composers, from Joseph Boulogne to Samuel Taylor-Coleridge.
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  8. Three women: one in a high wig and flowers in her hair, another sitting in profile, and (in a drawing) standing in a group as part of a stage production

    Mozart and the Weber sisters

    2 September 2024

    We look at Mozart's close relationship with the children of the Weber family.
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  9. A man plays the cello, his bow on the string

    The cello concerto

    26 August 2024

    In a new series for 2024/25, who better than the SCO players to guide us through the best concertos for their instrument?
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  10. Mozart and the development of the piano concerto

    1 July 2024

    How one composer almost single-handedly raised the piano concerto to unprecedented heights.
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  11. The reappraisal of Così fan tutte

    1 July 2024

    Neglected during much of the 19th century, Mozart's Cinderella of an opera is more relevant than ever today.
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  12. Spanish music by French composers

    1 July 2024

    From Bizet to Ravel, we look at the long-standing fascination of French composers for the music of Spain.
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