Tectonics 2024 TECTONICS: Meet The Artists - Day 2

Conductor Thomas Dausgaard introduces Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.

BBC SSO Conductor Emeritus Sir Donald Runnicles talks about working with the orchestra.

BBC SSO Principal Guest Conductor Ilan Volkov discusses his time with the orchestra

BBC SSO Artist in Association Matthias Pintscher on working with the orchestra

BBC SSO chief conductor on working with the orchestra

BBC SSO & Big Noise: Stravinsky - The Firebird

The Southbank Centre's Head of Classical Music Gillian Moore discuss Sibelius's Finlandia.

Performance and interviews from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Beethoven Five Alive! workshop in Dundee Caird Hall.

Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Rossini's William Tell Overture.

Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony show how the British composer Gustav Holst used music to paint a picture of anger and war in his piece Mars, from The Planets.

Andrew Manze conducts the BBC SSO in the Sunrise from Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Andrew Manze conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in part of the most famous symphony by Beethoven, his Fifth Symphony. He shows how Beethoven used the music from the first bar of the piece as a building block to create a whole musical symphony, like fitting together musical bricks.

Andrew Manze introduces more instruments of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He shows how Mozart used a melody of only 4 notes to finish his great piece, Jupiter Symphony.

Andrew Manze looks at how a composer from 300 years ago paints a picture using music. Here the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra paints a picture of how it feels to be cold: from Vivaldi’s piece The Four Seasons.

Andrew Manze looks at how a composer from 300 years ago painted pictures using music. Here the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra paints a picture of sleep: from Vivaldi’s piece The Four Seasons.

Andrew Manze introduces the instruments of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and they play variations on a theme by the American composer Aaron Copland.

Andrew Manze looks at how a composer from 300 years ago painted pictures using music. Here the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra paints a picture of a storm: from Vivaldi’s piece The Four Seasons.

Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony show how the British composer Gustav Holst used music to paint a picture of happiness and joy in his piece Jupiter, from The Planets.

Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony show how the British composer Gustav Holst used music to paint a picture of calm and peace in his piece Venus, from The Planets.

Andrew Manze shows how the earliest orchestras were made of just 4 people. He and members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform a dance written by the British composer Henry Purcell in 1695.

Conductor Donald Runnicles explains his interpretation of Der Rosenkavalier, by Strauss.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.1.

Interview with BBC SSO chief conductor Donald Runnicles about Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs ahead of its performance in Aberdeen on 29 September and Edinburgh on 2 October.

Exclusive interview with James MacMillan about his version of the St John Passion ahead of its Scottish Premiere at City Halls on 29 September.

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra play Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in D minor at the BBC Proms, 2011.

RSAMD student Rachel Spencer (violin) performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the BBC SSO as part of a concerto performance.

RSAMD student Graeme Brown (bassoon) performs Villa Lobos's Ciranda das Sete Notas with the BBC SSO as part of a concerto performance.

RSAMD student Glynn Forrest (marimba) performs Rory Boyle's Marimba Concerto with the BBC SSO as part of a concerto performance.

RSAMD student Jonathan Wettermark performs Larsson's Concertino with the BBC SSO as part of a concerto performance.

The BBC Singers and members discuss performing Haydn's The Creation.