大象传媒

Katie Derham presents a week of Afternoon on 3 featuring recent concerts by the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on Russian composers.

Today's programme finds the orchestra at Ayr Town Hall, including a complete concert conducted there by Andrew Manze just a couple of weeks ago. Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen plays part of Prokofiev's Six Pieces for Piano, continuing the week's Russian theme. By way of complement there's brand new music - a world premiere in John Maxwell Geddes' An Ayrshire Suite - and two great symphonies from the heart of the repertoire: Mozart's Jupiter and Beethoven's Pastoral. Andrew Manze conducts both, and we'll also hear his orchestration of Mozart's Adagio for Glass Harmonica.

Maxwell Geddes: An Ayrshire Suite (world premiere)

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Sean Shibe (guitar)

Mozart (orch. Manze): Adagio for Glass Harmonica

2.30pm
Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C major (Jupiter)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor).

c. 3pm
Prokofiev: 6 Pieces for Piano (Op 52)
Olli Mustonen (piano)

3.30pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F Major (Pastoral)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Andrew Manze (conductor).

Recent concerts by the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra feature throughout the week, including at least one symphony each day, by the likes of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, but also works complementing the Russian repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Britten and Bartok.