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Rachmaninoff - Shostakovich - BBC Radio Scotland Young Classical Musician 2025 Semi Final Performances

Jamie MacDougall celebrates the best in Classical music from Scotland and beyond, plus concert highlights from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the RSNO.

Jamie MacDougall with the best in Classical music from Scotland and further afield. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra present an inspired performance of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances with conductor Emilia Hoving. We celebrate rising talent with performances recorded at the Semi-Final of BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Classical Musician 2025, plus we hear concert highlights from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor.

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1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sunday 19:00
BBC Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez: I. Allegro con spirito

    Performer: John Williams. Performer: Christine Pendrill. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Frémaux.
    • Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez & Fantasía para un Gentilhombre.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rachmaninoff : Symphonic Dances

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Emilia Hoving.

  • Finn Mannion

    E. Bloch: 'Jewish Song' of 'From Jewish Life' for cello and piano

  • Finn Mannion

    S. Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor, Op.19, mvt. i

  • Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Rêverie et caprice, H. 88

    • Paganini: 24 Caprices — Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Sa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 34.

  • María Dueñas, Mihhail Gerts & German Symphony Orchestra Berlin

    Saint-Saëns: Introduction et rondo capriccioso, Op. 28

    • Paganini: 24 Caprices — Caprices by Berlioz, Cervelló, Kreisler, Ortiz, Saint-Sa.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 35.

  • Edward Scully

    K. Szymanowski: Etude No.1 Op.4

  • Edward Scully

    F. Liszt: Chapelle de Guillaume Tell (from Années de Pèlerinage I: Suisse)

  • Edward Scully

    K. Szymanowski: Etude No. 3 Op. 33

  • Alexander Traykov

    Scarlatti: Sonata K.87 in B minor

  • Alexander Traykov

    Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableaux Op.33 No.6 in E-flat minor

  • Alexander Traykov

    Tchaikovsky/Pletnev: Pas de Deux from the Nutcracker Suite

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor

    Performer: Rosanne Philippens. Performer: Gemma New. Conductor: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 19:00
    BBC Radio Scotland