Afternoon on 3 - 07/08/2008

Presented by Louise Fryer. BBC Proms 2008: Another chance to hear a Prom in which the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and its young associate guest conductor Stefan Solyom celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ethel Smyth's birth. Her unusually scored Concerto for Horn and Violin is dedicated to the founder of the Proms, Henry Wood, and alongside it are Wood's own arrangements of Bach and Rachmaninov, a composer whose work he championed. The concert closes with Rachmaninov's romantic Second Symphony. Richard Watkins (horn) Tasmin Little (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Stefan Solyom (conductor) Bach, orch. Henry Wood: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Smyth: Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra Rachmaninov, orch. Henry Wood: Prelude in C sharp minor Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor Plus Chamber Music: The Britten Sinfonia play works by composers from Bach to Peter Maxwell Davies, as well as Bach arranged by Maxwell Davies.