SCO 2019/20: New Year Gala Concert

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In keeping with tradition, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra offers a festive and light-hearted programme on the first of the year.

Conductor Joseph Swensen is much loved by the Orchestra and audiences alike, and gives this year’s programme a Scandinavian twist with a smorgasbord of delights, including galops by Hans Christian Lumbye, as well as classic New Year favourites from, of course, the Strauss family!

Programme to include:

J Strauss II: Overture, Die Fledermaus

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1  

Nielsen: Overture, Maskarade

Lumbye: Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop

Lumbye: Champagne Galop  

J Strauss II: Roses from the South   

J Strauss II: An der schönen, blauen Donau

and songs by Lehár and Strauss

Joseph Swensen: Conductor

Harriet Eyley: Soprano

Collection in Aid of Marie Curie