The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra LIVE

Kate Molleson hosts a week of live concerts from the BBC Orchestras – today’s concert is presented by Chris Berrow, Live from City Halls, Glasgow where Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in key works from the last century.

The ‘Sinfonia da Requiem’ could be the rawest music Britten ever wrote; an outpouring of personal grief that somehow grows into a furious warning to a world on the brink of the Second World War. Prokofiev’s ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ remakes Shakespeare in the iron and steel of Stalin’s USSR – yet somehow gets closer than any other version to the story’s tender heart. And Stravinsky reinvents Bach for the Art Deco era, in a chamber concerto that positively buzzes with wit

2.00pm
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Photo: Opera Omnia Productions.