BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra At Hcmf 2012

Ivan Hewett presents the first of two concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Each of the three works has a soloist, with music by Pintscher himself alongside UK premieres by Wolfgang Rihm and the Festival's featured composer Maja Ratkje. Plus a bonus piece celebrating Witold Lutoslawski's centenary next Friday with a performance from the last concert he ever conducted, in 1993.

Maja Ratkje: Concerto for Voice and Orchestra (UK premiere)

with Maja Ratkje (voice)

Wolfgang Rihm: Versuchung (UK premiere)

with Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)

Matthias Pintscher: Songs from Solomon's Garden

with Leigh Melrose (baritone)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,

Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Lutoslawski: Chain 1

New Music Concerts Ensemble,

Witold Lutoslawski (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents the second of two concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their Artist-in-Association Matthias Pintscher at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Two recent works, by Pintscher himself and Dai Fujikura - the UK premiere of a piece written for Gustavo Dudamel and his Venezuelan Simon Bolivar orchestra - are complemented by two contemporary classics: a concertante work with solo accordion by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim, who died in 2010, and one of Luigi Nono's greatest explorations of the border between sound and silence. Plus, during the interval, another UK premiere - from featured composer at the festival, Irishman Donnacha Dennehy.

Dai Fujikura: Tocar y luchar (UK premiere)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,

Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Matthias Pintscher: Mar'eh

Erik Schumann (violin),

Donnacha Dennehy: As An Nós (UK premiere)

Crash Ensemble,

Alan Pierson (conductor)

Arne Nordheim: Spur

Frode Haltli (accordion),

Luigi Nono: No hay caminos hay que caminar