Cheryl Frances-Hoad鈥檚 music has been hailed by 'The Guardian' as 鈥榚ngagingly freewheeling鈥� so don鈥檛 miss her new Cello Concerto performed here by 2012鈥檚 大象传媒 Young Musician, Laura van der Heijden; the youthful energy and commitment of her playing surely makes her the perfect soloist for this World Premiere. Elgar called his Second Symphony 鈥榯he passionate pilgrimage of a soul鈥� and some people think it鈥檚 his greatest, the composer at his most vulnerable and revealing as its bouncing swagger gives way to music of haunting beauty and deep emotion.

Our Chief Conductor Ryan Wigglesworth closes the Glasgow Series with this huge work which just bursts with feeling 鈥� and links it to another master of orchestral colour, Richard Strauss. His hero, the medieval German trickster, Till Eulenspiegel, gets things off to a cheeky, prank-ridden start.

This concerts ends at approximately 9:30pm.