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Kate Molleson hosts a week of live concerts from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Orchestras – today’s concert is presented by Chris Berrow, Live from City Halls, Glasgow where Alpesh Chauhan conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alpesh Chauhan (conductor)

Photo: Opera Omnia Productions.