Together with Holst's The Planets, Mahler's Symphony No.7, and Janacek's Sinfonietta, Strauss' Ein Heldenleben is one of the few orchestral works to include a tutti part of any significance for euphonium (tenor tuba). In March the RSNO will be performing the work on 3 concerts in Dundee, Edinburgh & Glasgow under Toronto-born conductor Peter Oundjian. 

Oundjian was an instrumental figure in the rebirth of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as Music Director and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010. The concerts will also feature Buenos Aires born pianist, Ingrid Fliter who began her piano studies in Argentina with Elizabeth Westerkamp. In 1992 she moved to Europe where she continued her studies at the Freiburg Musikhochschule with Vitaly Margulis, then in Rome with Carlo Bruno and with Franco Scala and Boris Petrushansky at the Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola. 

CONCERT DETAILS

“I don’t see why I shouldn’t write a symphony about myself,” Strauss once boasted. “I find myself quite as interesting as Napoleon.” So when he came to paint a musical self-portrait, he wasn’t exactly modest! From earsplitting battles and roof-raising fanfares to shamelessly explicit love-scenes, everything about Ein Heldenleben is larger-than-life – and with the enchanting Ingrid Fliter also joining Peter Oundjian in Beethoven’s most personal piano concerto, these concerts promise to be one of the real highlights of the Season.

Thursday 27 March 2014: 7.30pm Caird Hall Dundee
Friday 28 March 2014: 7.30pm Usher Hall Edinburgh
Saturday 29 March 2014: 7.30pm Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

PROGRAMME 

Rossini - Overture to The Silken Ladder
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4
INTERVAL
R Strauss - Ein Heldenleben