Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Scotland Week - The Scottish Chamber Orchestra

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra recorded in Perth last month, performs a musical fairy tale, a piano concerto and a Parisian symphony.

A medieval legend opens The Scottish Chamber Orchestra鈥檚 performance, recorded at Perth Concert Hall last month. Written by a 25 year old Mendelssohn, it depicts the water sprite Melusine in musical form. The musical escapism continues with Ravel鈥檚 magnificent piano concerto in G major as the sensational Edinburgh-based pianist Steven Osborne joins the SCO on stage, continuing his 50th birthday celebrations this year. After the interval we hear Mozart鈥檚 Symphony No 31 in D major, written to please his Parisian audience. His use of several fashionable compositional techniques and the newly available clarinet impressed his audience so much, that they not only applauded between movements, but during them!

Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusine Overture Op.32
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major

Approx 8.05pm
Interval

Approx 8.25pm
Mozart: Symphony no.31 in D major K.297 鈥楾he Paris鈥�

Steven Osborne - piano
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Douglas Boyd - conductor

Presented by Kate Molleson

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Thu 27 May 2021 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Colin Currie

Next

Scotland Week - The RSNO

See all episodes from Radio 3 in Concert

Recipes

See all recipes from Scotland Week - The Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Fair Melusine Overture Op.32

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 6.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise, Op 34 No 14

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alex Grynyuk.
    • DG.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apr猫s un r锚ve, Op 7 No 1 arr for violin and piano

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 31 in D major, K.297

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Douglas Boyd.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    From 24 Preludes in Jazz Style Op 53

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Nikolai Kapustin Piano Music.
    • Hyperion Records.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No 3 in A minor 'Scottish', Op 56

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Mendelssohn & Schumann.
    • LSO.

  • Nicola Benedetti

    Ae fond kiss

    Author: Robert Burns. Music Arranger: Paul Campbell. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rory Macdonald.
    • Decca.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 May 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3