Performance on 3 - Scottish Ensembles - Scottish Ensemble

Presented by Martin Handley Continuing a week of concerts featuring Scottish Orchestras and Ensembles The Scottish Ensemble, normally an 11 piece string group were enhanced for this concert with two horns to perform the Berio but also in an innovative educational project with gifted young players from St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh and students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The Scottish Ensemble is led from the violin by Jonathan Morton and was joined on this occasion by the group's previous Artistic Director, Clio Gould who played the fiendish solo part in the Berio and joined him for the Bach Double Concerto. This programme demonstrates the eclecticism of the ensemble's repertoire which ranges from contemporary through romantic repertoire to baroque and includes Tippett's jazz-influenced Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Berio's Corale based on the Sequenza for solo violin, Bach's Double Violin Concerto, Vaughan Williams beloved Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and an encore of the finale of Grieg's Holberg Suite. An extraordinary experience for those young players working side by side with musicians at the top of their field. Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra Berio - Corale (Sequenza VIII for violin) Bach - Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings in D minor, BWV 1043 Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Scottish Ensemble Jonathan Morton (violin) Clio Gould (violin) Followed by performances by students past and present from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Martin Dalby: A Plain Man's Hammer Royal Scottish Academy Wind Orchestra Nigel Boddice (conductor) James Macmillan: From Galloway Calum Robertson (clarinet) Andrew Baker: Fragments of Tomorrow RSAMD Jazz Ensemble James MacMillan: After the Tryst Ruth Crouch (violin) James MacMillan (piano) RCA 09026619162 Tr 9