BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Proms 2024

Gemma New joins the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s musical retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, following Mozart’s heavenly Clarinet Concerto with Anthony McGill and Mel Bonis’s colourful Salomé

Starting with a sequence honouring Duke Ellington, Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra celebrate milestones from the past 100 years of American jazz. They are joined on stage by the Aaron Diehl Trio and soloists.

Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present a feast of English music, featuring Britten’s suite from his 1953 coronation opera Gloriana, Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s new climate change-themed Cello Concerto and Elgar’s Second Symphony.

Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Third Symphony and Schoenberg’s sumptuous tone-poem Verklärte Nacht, before mezzo-soprano Alice Coote lends her glowing voice to Mahler’s devastating Kindertotenlieder.