Performance on 3 - SCO/Robin Ticciati

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. A concert given at City Halls, Glasgow, featuring the highly anticipated debut of young British conductor Robin Ticciati as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. It begins with Henze's First Symphony, which although composed by a youthful 21-year-old who had just lived through the horrors of Hitler's Germany, is surprisingly pastoral and light-hearted. The programme then pairs the expansive richness of Brahms's Second Symphony with the dark depth of Mahler's folk-inspired song cycle, performed by one of the most celebrated Czech stars of today, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena. Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) Scottish Chamber Orchestra Robin Ticciati (conductor) Henze: Symphony No 1 Mahler: Songs (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Brahms: Symphony No 2 in D, Op 73 Followed by a focus on Christmas music from around the world: A DANISH CHRISTMAS: Five Christmas songs Musica Ficta Bo Holten (conductor) NAXOS – 8.554627 A CELTIC CHRISTMAS: Calennig; Taladh Chriosda (Christ Child’s Lullaby); The Wren Hornpipe / The Christmas Eve / Winter Apples Various Artists SAYDISC CD-SDL 417 GERMAN CHRISTMAS SONGS: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen; Ach Herr, du Schopfer; Joseph Lieber, Josef Meine Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) PHILIPS 462050 TRADITIONAL: Joy to the World The Blind Boys of Alabama REAL WORLD CDR W115