大象传媒

John Shea rounds off Afternoon on 3's week featuring recent performances from concerts by the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with a special focus on Russian composers.

In today's programme, conductor Ilan Volkov and Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey team up for Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, and our final concert of the week - this time from the Music Hall in Aberdeen - features two more Russian masterpieces: Michal Dworzynski conducts Stravinsky's Violin Concerto (with soloist Boris Brovtsyn) and Rachmaninov's Second Symphony.

By way of contrast, John Storgards conducts the 大象传媒 SSO in Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta.

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Pieter Wispelwey (cello),
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Ilan Volkov (conductor).

2.15pm
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
John Storgards (conductor).

2.50pm
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
with Boris Brovtsyn (violin)

3.15pm
Rachmaninov: Symphony no. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra,
Michal Dworzynski (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.