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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Ilan Volkov

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Colin Currie

Percussion

Colin Currie & Ilan Volkov

Glasgow

United Kingdom

City Halls

Public

Concert

Festive Overture In A Major, Op.96

Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, Op. 111

Trurliade - Zone Zero

Sharan Allad

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Imagine...an irrational robot goes terrifyingly off the rails… & Percussionist Colin Currie is the only man who can stop it.
All music tells a story, but the best music tells more than one. Shostakovich’s Festival Overture opens with jubilant trumpets – but this was the Soviet Union, so it would do, wouldn’t it? Prokofiev wrote his Sixth Symphony in the aftermath of World War Two, and though it’s certainly an epic, it’s far from clear that it ends in anything as simple as triumph. As you’d expect from Ilan Volkov, it’s the climax of a whole evening of music that asks as many questions as it answers, including Olga Neuwirth’s utterly original vision of a robot creator going terrifyingly off the rails. Armed with DJ turntables, a megaphone and clicking metal frogs, soloist Colin Currie - possibly the world’s greatest living percussionist – is the only man who can stop it…

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Colin Currie & Ilan Volkov by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Neuwirth, From (2025/2025), Conductor Ilan Volkov, City Halls, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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