Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto with Ning Feng and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Linton Stephens showcases the best performances by BBC orchestras, choirs, ensembles and other great performing groups from Europe and around the globe.

All week, Linton is featuring brilliant performances from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra including a rich selection of concertos including familiar favourites and the intriguing new. The programme opens with Brahms's technically demanding Violin Concerto performed by soloist Ning Feng. Plus, we will hear Tubin's expressive Concerto for Double Bass performed by Gyunam Kim.

We are also shining a light on piano music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Today German pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati performs one fo JS Bach's great keyboard Partitas.

Plus BBC Radio 3’s 25 for 25: Sounds of the Century – a series of brand new commissions celebrating and commemorating some of the biggest events of the 21st century so far. Today, Karl Jenkins and Welsh poet and author Grahame Davies commemorate those who lost their lives to the global Covid pandemic. 'The Signs Still Point The Way ' is performed by the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto
Ning Feng (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Antony Hermus (conductor)

Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op.13
Elias String Quartet

25 for 25:
Karl Jenkins
The Signs Still Point The Way
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers

Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 4 in D, BWV 828
Schaghajegh Nosrati (piano)

Eduard Tubin
Concerto for Double Bass
Gyunam Kim (double Bass)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Anu Tali (conductor)

Benjamin Britten
Suite on English folk tunes
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

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