BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

A concert of folk songs and tales from the BBC SSO. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.2 takes a different Ukrainian folk melody as theme for each movement, while a gruesome Czech legend provides the starting point for Janáček’s atmospheric The Fiddler’s Child.

One of Scotland’s most loved musical events, BBC Scotland’s Proms in the Park returns to Glasgow Green.

Guest conductor Matthew Halls and soprano Jennifer France join us at the 2019 Lammermuir Festival.

The BBC SSO's Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard opens the 2019-20 Season with Mahler's Fifth Symphony.

BBC SSO Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard conducts Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances in Aberdeen.

The Scottish composer’s tumultuous 'Woman of the Apocalypse' and the sonic spectacle and riotous fun of 'A Scotch Bestiary'.

Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations provides both model and inspiration for a new set of variations by 14 living composers premiered here to mark conductor Martyn Brabbins’s 60th birthday. The concert also includes Vaughan Williams’s exquisite Serenade to Music.

The BBC SSO's Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard explores Grieg’s exuberant music and Glorious Percussion, an astonishing concerto by composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Violinist Pekka Kuusisto traces the evolution of Finland’s classical tradition, from improvised folk beginnings to the sophisticated brilliance of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. The concert closes with the composer’s nature-inspired Fifth Symphony.

From the glow of Strauss’s sunrise to the blaze of a torturer’s fire in Sir James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, the BBC SSO explores the gamut of the human experience. Alexander Melnikov is the soloist in Schumann’s bravura Piano Concerto.