Sandy Burnett introduces the first of five autumn concerts from Glasgow's City Hall in which the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform 20th-century masterworks by British and Nordic composers. Tonight, music of the spheres revisited and the UK premiere of a new symphony from Finland.
Christian Lindberg (trombone), Ladies' voices of the Scottish Festival Singers, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vanska
Sibelius N(gnfr<de and Sunrise
Ka)evi Aho Symphony No 9 (First UK performance)
8.50 Twenty Minutes: Nordic Disconnections
There is a tendency to think of the Nordic states as being culturally unified, but in this talk the Finnish writer Oili Kivinen shows how differences of history and geography have produced real cultural diversity: from Finland, with its proximity to the Russian world and imagination, to Denmark, the 'bad Nordic', which looks to the south.
9.10 Holst The Planets
Colin Matthews Piano