Scott is the conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra and host of PBS series Now Hear This – the first show about classical music on American prime time TV in 50 years – and appears alongside frequent guest star flutist (and wife!) Alice Dade. The exceptional musician has appeared with many of the world’s leading ensembles from Moscow Chamber Orchestra to the New York Philharmonic.

The musical synergy between the two and the orchestra will be electric, as they perform a new flute concerto by Michael Fine and Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2, in B Minor. In addition to religious works, Bach wrote reams of secular pieces, many of them dance suites. These suites can be incredibly ‘catchy’, and the audience will hear unforgettable dances and earworms when they hear the B minor suite with the crack group of musicians assembled for this show.

Also on the program is Bartok’s popular Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, which is likely familiar from countless Hollywood films, rounding off an eclectic program of spectacular music.

Programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067

Alice Dade, flute

Michael Fine
Flute Concerto

World premiere performance.

Alice Dade, flute

Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta