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Afternoon Concert

Music: Classical

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras

Unique performances with BBC Orchestras, Choirs and other great orchestras from around the world

Afternoon on 3: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Episode 2

Episode 2

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Episode 2

Katie Derham presents the BBC SSO in music by Walton, Somervell, Mozart and Brahms.

Katie Derham with music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Walton: Symphony No 2. Somervell: Symphonic Variations (Normandy). Brahms: Tragic Overture. Brahms: Symphony No 1.

Today's music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's brand-new CDs begins with William Walton's Second Symphony, conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Composed over 25 years after Walton had written his first symphony, it was greeted with a muted response by the younger critics of the time as being out of date; but as the years pass opinions are shifting in its favour. We also hear from another English composer - Arthur Somervell, with a work for piano and orchestra in which pianist Martin Roscoe joins the orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. 

The second half of the programme is given over to a performance recorded in Inverness featuring the BBC SSO's Principal Oboe, Stella McCracken and conducted by the orchestra's Associate Guest Conductor Andrew Manze. Mozart's wonderful Oboe Concerto is sandwiched between the gems of Brahms' Tragic Overture and his First Symphony.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Afternoon Concert: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in complete concerts performed around Scotland

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays complete concerts from around Scotland, featuring their family of conductors - Donald Runnicles, Ilan Volkov, Andrew Manze and Matthias Pintscher

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