Synopsis

Tonight's performance highlights two Russian artists and a contemporary Scottish composer, presented by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and led by Thomas Dausgaard, the orchestra’s principal conductor. Finnish soloist Pekka Kuusisto will perform Tchaikovsky's deeply emotional and technically demanding Violin Concerto. The program continues with *Petrushka*, the first of a significant series of Stravinsky ballets for the Ballet Russes to be performed by Scottish orchestras. The concert