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Taverner
BBC Radio 3
To be recorded for broadcast in BBC Radio 3’s Opera on 3 on Saturday 28 November at 6.00pm.
City Halls provides the venue for this concert performance of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s iconic morality opera Taverner – a mighty climax to Glasgow’s celebrations for ‘Max at 75’. The opera, begun in 1956 and in gestation for some 16 years, was premiered in London in 1972, and today is considered by many to be one of the composer’s greatest creations – a seminal dramatic work in Max’s life. For this evening’s performance, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a cast featuring the best of Britain’s vocal talent, combined choirs from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, University of Glasgow and the RSNO Junior Chorus, are all led by one of the UK’s leading exponents of Max’s music, the conductor Martyn Brabbins.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (born 1937)
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.
Glasgow
Tickets: FREE (unreserved seating) limited to 4 tickets per application
0141-353 8000
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RSNO Junior Chorus
The Chorus, based in Glasgow, is organised and funded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Its aim is to teach children to read music and to train their voices to high standards of performance. The singers perform with the RSNO as well as other leading UK orchestras, in Scotland's main concert venues such as the Usher Hall and The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Martyn Brabbins
Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music 2005-2007, he was Associate Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 1994-2005. After studying composition in London and then conducting with Ilya Musin in Leningrad, his career was launched when he won first prize at the 1988 Leeds Conductors' Competition. Since then Brabbins has regularly conducted all the major UK orchestras and is much sought-after in Europe, notably in Germany, Holland, Belgium and Scandinavia.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Formed in December 1935 by Scottish composer and conductor Ian Whyte, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is recognised as one of the UK’s leading orchestras. The winner of several awards, including a Royal Philharmonic Society Award (the only Scottish orchestra to do so) and four Gramophone Awards, its wide repertoire and flexible approach to format means it can perform a complex contemporary piece as a specialist ensemble alongside a major symphonic work. It has a busy broadcasting schedule on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Television and also records commercially.
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