Colin Currie & Scottish Chamber Orchestra

In the organizer's words:

18.45 Introductory talk

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Colin Currie: Percussion

Maxim Emelyanychev: Conductor

Ludwig van Beethoven: Excerpts from the ballet music "The Creatures of Prometheus

James MacMillan: "Veni, Veni, Emmanuel". Percussion concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Maxim Emelyanychev is currently catapulting himself to the forefront of Beethoven interpreters. As chief conductor, he is refining the playing culture of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra - inspired by historical performance practice and with plenty of freedom for the ensemble. For him, "authentic performance practice is contemporary, not a museum". He gives Beethoven's Fifth a vital spring, and in the "Prometheus" ballet music he works out vivid characters.

In between, the ensemble presents the important Scottish composer James MacMillan, with whom it has been closely associated for decades. His percussion concerto on the Advent hymn "Veni, Veni, Emmanuel" is bursting with energy and demands everything from the soloist - a masterpiece for Scottish percussionist Colin Currie, who has to play various drums, tam tams, congas, gongs, a marimba and many other instruments.