SCO 24/25: An Afternoon with Simon Crawford-Phillips & SCO Friends

Get up close with an intimate chamber afternoon with Simon Crawford-Phillips on piano, plus some of the SCO’s brilliant principal players, in music to charm, excite and entertain.  

Please note: There has been a change to the originally advertised concert. Sadly due to personal reasons, Pekka Kuusisto will no longer be able to take part in this concert, but we are grateful to Principal First Violin Afonso Fesch and Sub-Principal Second Violin Gordon Bragg who will now join us as soloists.

There’s entrancing melody courtesy of Schumann's Fantasiestücke for Violin and piano and Fauré’s exquisite Cello Sonata, plus passion from Clara Schumann’s adventurous Romances, and bustling Parisian energy in Martinů’s rarely-heard sonata. Simon Crawford-Phillips, Maximiliano Martín, and Gordon Bragg bring the concert to an exuberant conclusion with music from Stravinsky’s Faustian parable of a soldier’s struggles with the Devil for his very soul – and his beloved violin.

Kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow

Artists

Simon Crawford-Phillips Piano
Afonso Fesch Violin*
Gordon Bragg Violin ~
André Cebrián Flute  
Maximilano Martín Clarinet  
Philip Higham Cello      

Programme

SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke*
FAURÉ Cello Sonata in G minor  
CLARA SCHUMANN Three Romances*
MARTINŮ Sonata for flute, violin and piano  
STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale: Suite ~ 

Presented by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Kindly supported by The Honorary Consulate of Finland, Edinburgh and Glasgow