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Time and Tides

Director and soloist … violinist Pekka Kuusisto. Photograph: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times/Getty
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Violinist Pekka Kuusisto joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra as director and soloist. Their
programme frames the UK premieres of Anna Clyne’s violin concerto Time and Tides, and Helen
Grime’s It Will Be Spring Soon, in which Kuusisto is joined by soprano Ruby Hughes, with works
by Erkki-Sven Tüür and Einojuhani Rautavaara.
13 March, Holy Trinity Church, St Andrews; 14 March, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh; 15 March, City
Halls, Glasgow

Simon Boccanegra
One of the highlights of Mark Elder’s final season as music director of the Hallé is a concert
performance of one of Verdi’s greatest operas. Elder conducts the orchestra, together with the
chorus of Opera North, in the rarely heard original 1857 score of Simon Boccanegra; Igor
Golovatenko is Boccanegra, Eleonora Buratto Amelia and Iván Ayón-Rivas Gabriele Adorno.
18 April, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Vespers of the Blessed Earth

Introducing an epic … conductor Ludovic Morlot. Photograph: Lawrence K Ho/LA Times/Getty Images
In 2016 the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra gave the UK premiere of John Luther
Adams’s outstanding Become Ocean, and they now introduce another epic Adams score, again
conducted by Ludovic Morlot. Vespers of the Blessed Earth is a 50-minute choral celebration of
the natural world, its landscapes and the sounds of the birds that inhabit them.

6 June, Symphony Hall, Birmingham