Scottish composer, producer, band-leader and all-round musical polymath Jim Sutherland presents arguably his most ambitious project to date, a multimedia meditation on the climate crisis and humanity’s relationship with nature, viewed through the lens of his Caithness birthplace.
Created in collaboration with BAFTA-winning filmmaker Morag McKinnon, and drawing on sources from his own childhood memories to conversations with leading climate scholars, When Fish Begin to Crawl embodies an urgent yet hopeful dialogue between art and science, spanning geological deep time and present-day eco-emergencies. Interwoven with multi-screen film projections, Sutherland’s impressionistic, resonantly evocative original score is performed by the Evolution Orchestra, a 21-piece ensemble of brass, strings and percussion, conducted by Matthew Rooke.
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Want to be the first to hear about what's happening in Glasgow? Just hit 'Like' on our Facebook page, join the What's On Scotland Facebook Group and 'Follow' on our Twitter account and you're all set!To celebrate the release of their debut album Sons Of The East and their full five piece band are playing 28 headline shows including a night at Oran Mor Glasgow on 2nd September!
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Aldous Harding is known for her charismatic combination of talent, tenacity, and shrewd wit, catch her live at Glasgow's City Halls on 2nd September!
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Join the BBC SSO at City Halls on 22nd September for the opening of their new season when Ryan Wigglesworth makes his debut as Chief Conductor!
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The BBC SSO's new Chief Conductor, Ryan Wigglesworth, joins principal players to perform this astonishing, humane, transcendental quartet, marking 30 years since Olivier Messiaen's death.
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Not many ten-year-olds get to headline the Barrowlands but Highland folk-fusioneers Elephant Sessions will do just that on 23rd September!
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Schumann's elegant and dynamic 'Spring' Symphony races along with a headstrong confidence as it gambols eagerly towards a world of warmth and light.
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Join Scottish superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti and Principal Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev to celebrate the launch of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 2022-23 Season!
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Maxim Emelyanychev, widely respected for the power and energy he brings to period performances, conducts the combined forces of the SCO and the SCO Chorus in Haydn's life-affirming choral masterpiece!
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Ralph McTell is coming to Glasgow's City Halls with songs from across his career and a showcase of new material from his new album, Hill of Beans!
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Imaginations at the ready... join the BBC SSO on 27th October for Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 as part of their Thursday Night Series!
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Rachmaninov's music is rarely more heartfelt or so fervently passionate as it is in the Second Symphony, join the BBC SSO as they perform it at City Halls as part of their Thursday Night Series.
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Scottish Chamber Orchestra presents From Darkness to Light with Anthony Marwood... music to bring a smile to your face – and maybe to subvert your expectations too!
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Get your blood pumping and put a smile on your face with this afternoon concert of Czech and Hungarian crackers courtesy of the BBC SSO!
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Two sunny symphonic works by Schumann sit side by side with a new concerto from one of Britain's most accomplished composers.
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Get ready for a thrilling ride as the BBC SSO distil the final part of Wagner's Ring Cycle into a single musical journey!
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Few song cycles have quite so much adoration bestowed upon them as Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs and it's easy to see why.
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Experience Baroque music at its grandest and most exuberant – as well as more recent works inspired by all its splendour and fantasy courtesy of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra!
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Marking 150 years since the composer's birth, Martyn Brabbins conducts Vaughan Williams's extraordinary masterpiece, a cinematic experience that'll give you chills – in every sense!
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Seduction? Passion? Cue extracts from Thomas Adès's opera about the scandalous Duchess of Argyll, full of slinky foxtrots and wistful waltzes.
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Conductor and harpsichordist Richard Egarr is joined by six brilliant soloists and the SCO Chorus for this gripping, galvanising choral masterpiece!
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Piano concertos don't come more popular or romantic than Rachmaninov's Second, forever enshrined in the public's imagination as the soundtrack to Brief Encounter.
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Discover Yaniewicz's own brilliantly dramatic Third Violin Concerto, as well as the music he performed and presented during the Scottish Enlightenment courtesy of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra!
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BBC SSO's Principal Guest Conductor, Ilan Volkov, can always be relied upon to champion the unfashionable, join him as he conducts Bartók.
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Join multi-award-winning South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son as she brings gracefulness and crystalline clarity to Mozart's final piano concerto!
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's glorious 'Christmas at the Movies' concert returns to City Halls on Sunday 18th December!
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Put on your dancing shoes and let your hair down to join the SCO in jazzy, foot-tapping style on both sides of the Atlantic, at City Halls, Glasgow on 13th January!
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Cut through the January gloom with Schubert's life-affirming Fifth Symphony performed by the BBC SSO at City Halls!
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Enjoy gripping drama and high emotion in deeply romantic music – in the company of inspirational French oboist and conductor François Leleux, a regular and much-loved SCO collaborator!
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The sublime BBC Singers return to Glasgow for the first of two concerts this season which explore the connection between Bach and Stravinsky.
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Two of Scotland’s most internationally celebrated traditional musicians join the SCO for new tunes, fresh perspectives and some much-loved music!
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Indie supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, comprised of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman, have announced they will play Saint Luke's on 5th February as part of Celtic Connections!
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Scottish Opera is delighted to present a selection of Italian opera’s greatest hits with a small cast of singers bringing numerous roles to life in a single evening, guaranteeing a great night out!
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Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her second appearance this season with Prokofiev's head-spinning Third Concerto.
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Dazzling virtuosity and elegant dance: dynamic Portuguese conductor Joana Carneiro brings together music to delight, entertain and amuse in this captivating concert!
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BBC SSO's Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth directs the orchestra in Stravinsky's legendary ballet score, The Rite of Spring.
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Join Maxim Emelyanychev for fresh perspectives on two of Brahms's mightiest, most stirring and deeply moving masterpieces!
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Spend an evening with Mendelssohn the magician – creator of sunny, carefree worlds, and of spectacular Shakespearean evocations – in the company of Maxim Emelyanychev and the SCO.
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Associate Conductor Alpesh Chauhan and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's riveting Fifth Symphony.
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Inspirational Finnish multi-musician Pekka Kuusisto makes a spectacular return to the SCO with an exciting residency in the 2022/23 Season!
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Hallucinations and wild imaginings: join Finnish musical pioneer Pekka Kuusisto on a journey into the strange and the wonderful in the second concert in his SCO residency!
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Cellist Abel Selaocoe returns to City Halls for his World Premiere with the BBC SSO, as Anu Tali conducts Sibelius's Second Symphony.
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George Frideric Handel was a superstar composer in 18th-century London. But he saved his most extravagant offerings for royal occasions, creating music expressly conceived to impress and astonish.
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Join Maxim Emelyanychev on 31st March at Glasgow's City Halls for a wide-ranging concert of high spirits and pithy power.
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Immerse yourself in nature with two works filled with bracing, invigorating energy that are bound to fill you with the joys of spring!
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Join the BBC SSO for an afternoon of rarely performed works by Scottish composers - and two World Premieres!
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As the days grow longer and the blossoms bloom, look forward to the warmth and laughter of summer in the company of fast-rising French conductor Chloé van Soeterstède.
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Beethoven's iconic journey from conflict and struggle to blazing affirmation, with inspirational British conductor Mark Wigglesworth.
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Passions, hopes and desires, in a gripping journey from funereal darkness to blazing glory. Tchaikovsky poured his soul into the Fifth Symphony, and the result is Romantic music at its most heartfelt.
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Pianist Denis Kozhukhin and conductor Kristiina Poska join the orchestra for an inspired evening at Glasgow City Halls!
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The SCO's 2022/23 Season comes to a contemplative close with Brahms' beautiful and deeply moving German Requiem!
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The BBC SSO's Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth closes the season with a passionate and moving concert with 2012's BBC Young Musician, Laura van der Heijden!
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Everything from kid-friendly classics to family foreign language and the latest blockbuster releases, Take 2 will keep even the littlest film fans entertained!
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Come and singalong to your favourite songs from the hit musical Grease at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall on 12th August!
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Join Trash Cinema at the Old Hairdressers on 15th August for a bit of the old ultraviolence at the hands of the merciless mercenary, the unparalleled kicker of ass, Sonny Chiba as The Street Fighter!
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The Alchemy Experiment will host a special Screening and Fundraiser, in support of Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, and Stand Up To Racism, on August 18th!
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Scotland's Rocky Horror shadowcast, and the only active Shadowcast in the UK, the Denton Deviants are bringing the Timewarp to the world's oldest surviving music hall!
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Intermission is the closing event of Holly O'Brien and Rachael Ryder's collective residency at Studio Pavilion, House For An Art Lover.
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Alex Smoke, Sonia Killmann and Sonic Surroundings, presented in collaboration with Construction Festival (Ukraine).
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Join Get Glasgow Moving for a screening of 'Bus Regulation: The Musical', as performed at the CCA in April this year.
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The Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to Glasgow's King's Theatre on its world tour with a brand new selection of extraordinary films!
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