The Christmas Playlist

"I think a lot of young people don't even consciously decide to become musicians. You just make more and more music and suddenly it's your profession." (Gwilym Simcock)

When he was 13, he was given a two-hole plastic case with a magnetic tape reel. A friend had recorded a few pieces by Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny and other jazz legends for him. "The tracks on that cassette changed my life back then," says Gwilym Simcock, a trained pianist, French horn player and composer and now one of the most important jazz musicians of his generation. After SKO's 2022 "The Simcock Effect" (from the first key you hit, you forget the time), the Welsh jazz superstar is now back as a guest and, together with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, will create the perfect atmosphere in the last few days before the festive season. After all, what could be more touching than the Pastorale in Corelli's Christmas Concerto and English Christmas Carols in a gently jazzified Simcock version? Simcock also brings a new piece to Corelli's Concerto grosso and his Christmas Playlist as a Christmas surprise, so to speak.

With:
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Gwilym Simcock, piano and conductor

Program:

Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in G minor op. 6 No. 8 "Christmas Concerto" (Arr. Gwilym Simcock)

Gwilym Simcock
New work

Christmas Songs
(arranged for orchestra and piano by Gwilym Simcock)

Concert introduction at 19:30