Synopsis

Razia Iqbal and Petroc Trelawny have curated a concert exploring the profound influence of the First World War on composers. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, led by Andrew Manze, will perform Vaughan Williams’s elegiac Pastoral Symphony, a work born from the aftermath of conflict. The program also features compositions by three gifted young composers who perished in the war, their music offering poignant reflections on lost landscapes and shattered innocence: George Butterworth's settings o