**02/12/22 - PROGRAMME UPDATE**
 
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra – Felix Yaniewicz and the Scottish Enlightenment

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Location

LocationEasterbrook Hall

Times

doors open 7.00pm, concert begins 7.30pm

Price

Standard £22
Senior £20
Disabled £11
Under 26/Students/Unemployed £6
Kids go free £0

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** 02/12/22: PROGRAMME UPDATE **

Peter Whelan Conductor / Harpsichord

Tara Erraught Mezzo Soprano

Largely forgotten today, Felix Yaniewicz was a remarkable figure in Scottish music: a Polish-Lithuanian composer and virtuoso violinist, and co-founder of the very first Edinburgh Music Festival, way back in 1815.

VIDEO: ABOUT FELIX YANIEWICZ

Programme Update: SCO (2/12/22)

“We regret to announce that Colin Scobie, who was due to lead the SCO and perform Felix Yaniewicz’s 3rd Violin Concerto in Dumfries, Edinburgh and Glasgow next week, has had to withdraw from these concerts due to unavoidable personal circumstances.

We are grateful that mezzo soprano Tara Erraught, with whom conductor Peter Whelan has worked before, will join the Orchestra to perform songs* that may have found themselves in one of Yaniewicz’s concert programmes back in the 19th century. These songs will replace Yaniewicz’s 3rd Violin Concerto and the Maxwell Quartet arrangements of Scottish songs.

The revised programme is as follows:

MOZART Overture, Die Entführung aus dem SerailGIORDANI Caro Mio Ben*YANIEWICZ Go Youth belov’d*THOMAS ERSKINE, EARL of KELLY Overture in C Op 1 No 2MOZART Exsultate Jubilate*HANDEL (arr MOZART) Overture, Alexander’s FeastJC BACH Four Scotch Songs No 3 Lochaber + No 4 The Broom of Cowdenknows*HAYDN Symphony No 100 ‘Military’

We are very sorry for this unavoidable, late change in this programme and hope that you will nevertheless enjoy this revised programme next week.”

Thank you for your understanding.

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Original Programme

Discover Yaniewicz’s own brilliantly dramatic Third Violin Concerto, as well as the music he performed and presented during the Scottish Enlightenment, in the company of acclaimed period performance conductor Peter Whelan and Colin Scobie, first violinist in the Maxwell Quartet and a respected soloist in his own right.

Celebrate the grandeur of Scotland’s own historic music – with a bracing Overture by Fife-based Thomas Erskine, Scotland’s most illustrious 18th-century composer, as well as Scottish song settings by JS Bach’s most pioneering son, plus new arrangements of traditional tunes by Niel and Nathaniel Gow.

Haydn’s stirring ‘Military’ Symphony – which Yaniewicz performed under the composer during his visits to London – brings the evening to a majestic close.

PROGRAMME

HANDEL ARR MOZART Overture, Alexander’s Feast

YANIEWICZ Violin Concerto No 3 in A

GOW ARR MAXWELL QUARTET Coilsfield House; Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning

ERSKINE, EARL OF KELLIE Overture in C, Op 1 No 2

TRAD ARR JC BACH Two Scotch Songs: Lochaber; The Broom of Cowdenknows

HAYDN Symphony No 100 in G ‘Military’

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