Episode 2

Penny Gore presents a week featuring recent concerts by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Today you can hear the BBC SSO in concert south of the border in Leeds with their Chief Conductor Donald Runnicles: symphonic works by Brahms and Debussy, and Steven Isserlis playing Saint-Saens's ever-popular First Cello Concerto. Plus Chopin played by one of Radio 3's current New Generation Artists, the remarkable young pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, who enjoys a special relationship in Scotland with a residency at the Perth Concert Hall. And the afternoon ends with the BBC SSO and conductor Stefan Solyom playing the cheerful Eighth Symphony by Brahms's friend Dvorak.

Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

c. 2.45pm
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no. 1 in A minor
Steven Isserlis (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

c. 3.05
Debussy: La Mer
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles (conductor)

c. 3.50pm
Dvorak: Symphony no. 8 in G major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stefan Solyom (conductor).