Performing the most thrilling & thought-provoking music the orchestral world has to offer. Broadcasting on BBC Radio, TV, Sounds & iPlayer!
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18 Apr 2024
🎺🎻🥁 Music-makers and music-lovers united. Join us across Scotland and experience the most thrilling, hopeful & thought-provoking music that the orchestral world has to offer.
Our 24/25 concerts in Aberdeen, Edinburgh & Glasgow have been announced: bbc.co.uk/bbcsso
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28 Nov 2024
Our friends at the RSNO have made the kind gesture of dedicating their concert this week to the memory of our Leader, Laura Samuel. Thank you RSNO, as well as our audiences and the wider music community, for expressing your condolences and sharing beautiful tributes to Laura.
28 Nov 2024
This week’s concert is dedicated to the memory of Laura Samuel, Leader of @BBCSSO & great friend of the RSNO. As we perform Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No1 & Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor, our thoughts will be with Laura’s family & friends.
📸 Photo of Laura, taken on the RSNO's 2023 European Tour by Chris Hart.
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28 Nov 2024
Tonight in #Glasgow, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Beethoven's 'Eroica' Symphony, Donghoon Shin's Cello Concerto "Night Surrender" with soloist Jaemin Han, and a potent tribute to Harrison Birtwistle, in what would have been the composer's 90th birthday year. bbc.co.uk/events/e88fbp
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27 Nov 2024
🎉 @BBCRadioScot's ‘Young Classical Musician’ competition returns for its second year
We’re looking for talented musicians aged between 18 & 24 to take part in this year’s competition, and three finalists will perform with BBC SSO in June 2025
Deadline: 6 Jan 2025, 12:00 noon
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15 Nov 2024
Paddy is The One and Only!! ♥️ Over £7.8 million raised by lunchtime today for @BBCCiN
@BBCRadio2's Zoe Ball, Chesney Hawkes & BBC SSO musicians welcomed Paddy & his Raleigh Chopper bike to Glasgow after a journey of 300 miles 👏 #PaddyUltra
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15 Nov 2024
#TomBorrow dazzles in #Prokofiev's 2nd Piano Concerto, and an original #SleepingBeauty suite says the fairy-tale season is upon us in style. @BBCSSO with Sir #MarkElder.
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14 Nov 2024
Prokofiev’s ferociously virtuosic Second #Piano Concerto takes flight in the hands of former @BBCRadio3 New Generation Artist Tom Borrow.
Sir Mark Elder conducts tonight's live broadcast from Glasgow on BBC Radio 3 & BBC Sounds!
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13 Nov 2024
✨ Sir Mark Elder rehearses Tchaikovsky’s ballet score ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ ahead of Thursday evening's live @BBCRadio3 broadcast from #Glasgow City Halls. Tickets still remaining!
#Tchaikovsky #Orchestra #SleepingBeauty #Ballet
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7 Nov 2024
🌌 Tonight in Glasgow & Friday in Perth, tenor Mark Padmore performs evocative song cycles by two of the 20th century's great composers.
Plus, Ryan Wigglesworth conducts Mozart 34 & Schumann’s most personal symphony: strong emotions, spoken with love. bbc.co.uk/events/e559hn
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2 Nov 2024
From 10.30pm @BBCRadio3, Kate Molleson presents two performances from Thursday's BBC SSO concert @NordicMusicDays
Britta Byström’s ‘Voyages extraordinaries’ & Maja S.K. Ratkje’s ‘Considering Icarus' for trombone & orchestra (soloist Stephen Menotti) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024fx…
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31 Oct 2024
🎶 Tonight in Glasgow, Emilia Hoving conducts “An Extraordinary Voyage!" at @nordicmusicdays 2024
With contemporary music from the Nordic region, incl. composers Hildur Guðnadóttir, Britta Byström, Eli Tausen á Lava & trombone concerto by Maja S.K. Ratkje with Stephen Menotti 👏
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29 Oct 2024
Hugely looking forward to this week’s Nordic Music Days festival in Glasgow - coming to Scotland for the first time in its 136 year history. A veritable smorgasbord of music, film, arts and friendship. Don’t miss it!
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30 Oct 2024
Applications for study at @RCStweets for the MMus Conducting course remain open until 2 December. Come to study in Glasgow, where you will work with Prof Martyn Brabbins, RCS ensembles & our professional partners @BBCSSO @RSNO @ScottishOpera @HEB_Ensemble rcs.ac.uk/courses/mmus-ma-co…
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28 Oct 2024
✨ This week, experience the sound of Nordic landscapes at venues across #Glasgow!
For the first time in 136 years, one of the world's longest running festivals for contemporary classical music @NordicMusicDays comes to Scotland.
🎟️ nordicmusicdays.org
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26 Oct 2024
🎻 Last few tickets remaining for tonight's concert in #Oban, featuring @ElenaUrioste and conducted by Riley Court-Wood bbc.co.uk/events/egjgfx
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25 Oct 2024
🎶 This week in #Oban, our Associate Artist Lucy Drever leads a brilliant range of creative workshops & performances for primary and secondary schoolchildren, as well as musical storytelling sessions for families with young children!
#creativity #musicmaking #orchestra #Argyll
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