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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in India

Jamie MacDougall presents music the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has been playing to audiences in India as part of their current tour.

Jamie MacDougall presents music the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has been playing to audiences in India as part of their current tour.

As both orchestras announce their 2014-2015 seasons, Robin Ticciati, Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and Peter Oundjian, Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, tell us what they are most looking forward to in the coming performances.

And leading operatic tenor Ryland Davies tells us about the piece of music that means the most to him in this week's My Music.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Tue 1 Apr 201420:05
BBC Radio Scotland except Extra

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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hebrides Overture

    Performer: BBC SSO. Conductor: James McMillan.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Visions fugitives

    Performer: Eva Curth.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Kyrie, from the Mass in C minor ‘great Mass’

    Performer: Academy and Chorus of St Martin in the Fields (+soloists, see CD). Conductor: Neville Marriner.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto – last movement, Presto

    Performer: Jean-Philiippe Collard/ Orchestre National de France. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Chacun le sait

    Performer: Elena Xanthoudakis/ Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.

  • joesph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major (‘The Joke’) Op 33 No 2, first movement

    Performer: Edinburgh Quartet.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No 5 Final movement

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti/ BBC SSO/ Musicians from the RCS. Conductor: James McMillan.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5, last movement

    Performer: BBC SSO (live from 1996 Proms). Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 4, 1st mvmt

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

  • Trad

    My Love is Like Red Red Rose

    Performer: BBC SSO/ Musicians of the RCS. Conductor: James McMillan.

  • Alastair Savage

    Winter Blue

    Performer: Alastair Savage/ Euan Drysdale/ Iain Crawford.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance No 8 in G minor

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein/ Czech Phil. Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody Op 79

    Performer: Marco Fatichenti.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No 4 Final movement

    Performer: BBC SSO/ Musicians from the RCS. Conductor: James McMillan.

Nicola Benedetti and young Indian string players

Nicola Benedetti and young Indian string players
Nicola Benedetti with young string players from A R Rahman's Sunshine Orchestra of KM College of Music and Technology. Photo courtesy of Helen Taylor. 

Broadcast

  • Tue 1 Apr 201420:05
    BBC Radio Scotland except Extra