Verity Sharp presents a concert recorded at the start of the month by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade , with a focus on Scottish composers: Stuart MacRae 's The Witch's Kiss, Gordon MacPherson 's Handguns -A Suite, Jennifer Martin 's Hearing Pictures, and the world premiere of a BBC commission, Edward Harper 's Elegy for
Horn, with David Rack as the soloist. Plus a concert recording of Piers Hellawell's
StringQuartet, and from a recentCD, James Dillon 's Vernal Showers, played by Irvine Arditti (violin) with the Nieuw Ensemble.