Performance on 3 - 13/01/2009

Presented by Martin Handley. A concert with Edinburgh-born conductor Nicholas Kraemer conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in the first of Handel's 12 Op 6 Grand Concertos. This is followed by two Scottish premieres - Thea Musgrave's Points of View, which explores musical elements including tonality, rhythm and melody, and Magnus Lindberg's Violin Concerto, written for the 2008 Mostly Mozart Festival in New York with violinist Jack Liebeck. The concert concludes with Mozart's Symphony No 35, written for the ennoblement of Sigismund Haffner, son of a prominent Salzburg family Jack Liebeck (violin) Scottish Chamber Orchestra Nicholas Kraemer (conductor) Handel: Concerto grosso in G, Op 6 No 1 Thea Musgrave: Points of View Magnus Lindberg: Violin Concerto Mozart: Symphony No 35 Followed by a Nielsen chamber music focus, including recordings from the BBC archives.