SCO 23/24 Northern Lights with Joseph Swensen

Look north for luminous music from Orkney, Denmark and Finland, brought together by SCO Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen.

Maxwell Davies imagined the hard-fought arrival of an Orcadian spring in one of his final works, written in 2013 for the SCO, while Sibelius offers an atmospheric portrait of the underworld of Finnish mythology, whose guardian swan is sung by SCO cor anglais player Katherine Bryer.

SCO Principal Flute André Cebrián is the soloist in Neilson’s brilliant Concerto, while Swensen offers his own rich orchestral reimagining of the same composer’s youthful First String Quartet.

Programme Maxwell Davies: Concert Overture ‘Ebb of Winter’ Nielsen: Flute Concerto Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela Nielsen (orch. Swensen): Four Movements for Orchestra

The performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’ The Ebb of Water is supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust.

Joseph Swensen: Conductor André Cebrián: Flute Katherine Bryer: Cor Anglais

Estimated duration: 70mins (incl. 20min interval)