Scottish Chamber Orchestra
St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington
Wed 14 Sept 7.30pm
Overture ‘Coriolan’
Chamber Symphony
Flamma
Symphony No 2 in D major Op 36
Conductor
Half price concessions for students in full time education
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s brilliance has made them admired all over the world and this programme allows them to express the full gamut of emotions from sorrow to jubilation.
Beethoven’s irrepressible optimism fills his ebullient Second Symphony. Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska precedes this unpredictable, fiery masterwork with a piece about fire by her countryman, Erkki-Sven Tüur. Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony is an arrangement of his 8th String Quartet, a searingly powerful work that the composer regarded as his own personal epitaph.
Kristiina Poska allowed the players unbridled freedom in the symphony’s colossal opening… but the way she managed the subsequent extended climax was hugely impressive.
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Seating Plan
See ticket prices for St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington below.
St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington
The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin is one of the great ecclesiastical buildings of mediaeval Scotland, founded in 1380 and known for centuries as "The Lamp of Lothian".
It was severely damaged in the 16th Century during Henry VIII's 'Rough Wooing' of Scotland, and after the Reformation only the nave was used as a parish church, with the choir and tower remaining roofless.
It was finally restored to its former glory in the 1970s, and is Scotland's longest church as well as one of its most beautiful, with a wonderfully warm, resonant acoustic.
Address
St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington
EH41 4BZ
Getting there by bus
Buses passing trough Haddington
EAST COAST BUSES: X6, X7, 106
PRENTICE: 108, 109, 101, 111, 122
EVE COACHES: 121
Please check bus timetables before booking your tickets.
Getting there by train
The nearest station is Drem.
Getting there by car
Haddington is off the A1. There are two exits off the A1 coming from the east or the west.
Accessibility
Parking:There is free on-street parking, 100m from the church, on the road, and throughout the town.
We can offer 3 spaces inside the church grounds, buy the side of the church, for blue badge holders. Please email [email protected] to book a space, subject to availability and on a first come first served basis.
Terrain:Tarmac and gravel.
Induction Loop:
Yes
Toilets:
Good male/female provision plus adapted toilet for disabled.
Access is easier via the North Side (side) door, next to the blue badge parking spaces, and open 30 minutes before concert. There will be a volunteer steward in a high vis jacket who will provide assistance. There is level access into venue.
