Episode 1

3 December 1935 saw the debut of a new orchestra in Glasgow: the BBC Scottish Orchestra. This week, as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, they celebrate their 75th birthday. Katie Derham celebrates in Afternoon on 3 with a selection of exciting new recordings and and archive highlights from the orchestra's history.

The week features recordings with most of the orchestra's Principal Conductors - from their founder Ian Whyte to Donald Runnicles, who's been in the post just over a year - and some of their most famous Assistant Conductors, including Simon Rattle! There's also Scottish music every day, and we visit all five cities where the orchestra perform regularly - Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Perth - as well as Munich and Vienna on their recent acclaimed tour of central Europe.

Today's programme opens with the very first performance of Runnicles' tenure and ends with one of his great specialities: Wagner.

Beethoven: Symphony No.1
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor

2.25pm
Hamish MacCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood - Overture
BBC Scottish Orchestra
Ian Whyte, conductor
[1943 recording]

2.35pm
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Julian Rachlin, violin
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor

Thea Musgrave: Songs for a Winter's Evening [excerpt]
Lisa Milne, soprano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor

3.15pm
Stravinsky: Orpheus
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

3.45pm
Wagner: Die Walküre - Act 1
Sieglinde...............Heidi Melton, soprano
Siegmund.............. Stuart Skelton, tenor
Hunding................Reinhard Hagen, bass
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor.