麻豆社

Live from City Halls, Glasgow

Presented by Jamie MacDougall

Runnicles conducts the 麻豆社 SSO in Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony.

Debussy: Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune
James MacMillan: Violin Concerto (Scottish Premiere)

8.15: Interval

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'

Vadim Repin, violin
麻豆社 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor

James MacMillan dedicated his Violin Concerto to the memory of his mother. But as last season's acclaimed 麻豆社 SSO cycle of MacMillan's piano concertos showed, there's more to anything by MacMillan than meets the ear: as one critic put it, this is a work "so full of ideas that you might wonder if he couldn't have written two concertos". In the hands of its dedicatee, the great Vadim Repin, it's an arresting companion-piece for Beethoven's much-loved (and deceptively relaxed) 'Pastoral' symphony, and the quiet revolution of Debussy's sensuous Pr茅lude; works chosen by Donald Runnicles both to complement, and to strike sparks off, each other.