The Closing Concert
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus are joined by three vocal soloists for this powerful finale to the Usher Hall programme.
Conductor Karina Canellakis, renowned for delivering emotionally charged performances, takes on feats of musical storytelling in this narrative programme. Excerpts from Richard Wagner’s influential opera Tristan und Isolde capture two lovers at the beginning and end of their doomed love affair. Alexander Scriabin’s symphonic Poème de l’extase, or Poem of Ecstasy, is an immersive experience of delicately layered melodic motifs.
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s choral symphony The Bells, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s poem of the same name, was one of the composer’s personal favourites. This monumental choral symphony recalls the ‘gladly chiming and mournfully tolling’ bells of Rachmaninoff ’s childhood, which filled his head as he wrote.
Her superbly managed performance… confirmed her command of large-scale musical architecture
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Karina Canellakis Conductor
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Aidan Oliver Chorus Director
Olga Kulchynska Soprano
David Butt Philip Tenor
Alexander Vinogradov Bass
Wagner Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Scriabin Poème de l’extase
Rachmaninoff The Bells
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