Afternoon on 3 - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Orkney - Episode 4

Katie Derham concludes Afternoon on 3's celebration of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's visit to the 2010 St Magnus Festival in the Orkney Isles. The final concert of this year's Festival, on 23 June, was a glittering programme, with star Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti joining the orchestra for Szymanowski's first violin concerto, the piece in which she made her name in 2004 with this orchestra as winner of the BBC Young Musician of the year. No finale would be complete without music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies who founded the Festival in 1977. And the concert ends with a crackle and a bang in Stravinsky's thrilling masterpiece. You can also hear "Tuireadh" by Scottish composer James MacMillan, which was given its world premiere in the 1991 Festival as a requiem for the victims of the Piper Alpha Oil Rig Disaster - which happened in 1988 not far from Orkney in the North Sea. And to round off this week-long celebration of the St Magnus festival, An Orkney Wedding (with Sunrise) by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The longstanding Director of the Festival Glenys Hughes retires this year and she joins Katie Derham live from Orkney to reflect on her time in the job, and the uniqueness of the Festival. Beethoven: Symphony No 8 in F major BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Michal Dworzynski, conductor 2.55pm Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 Nicola Benedetti, violin BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Michal Dworzynski, conductor 3.20pm Maxwell Davies: Overture: St Francis of Assisi BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Michal Dworzynski, conductor 3.30pm Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1945) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Michal Dworzynski, conductor 4.00pm Maxwell Davies: Proverb (World Premiere Broadcast) St Magnus Festival Chrous BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, conductor 4.10pm MacMillan: Tuireadh (Lament for the dead) for clarinet and strings Paul Meyer, clarinet BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, conductor 4.35pm Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise Iain MacDonald, bagpipes BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor.