John McLeod
The Sun Dances 13'
London premiere
Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major 35'
interval
Mozart, compl. Robert D. Levin
Requiem in D minor 50'
Carolyn Sampson soprano
Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Jeremy Ovenden tenor
Neal Davies bass
National Youth Choir of Scotland
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Donald Runnicles conductor
Donald Runnicles and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joined by the National Youth Choir of Scotland for Mozart's ever-popular Requiem – the composer's poignant and prescient anticipation of his own death.
Scottish composer John McLeod's The Sun Dances is a glowing, iridescent work inspired by an Easter folk legend from the West of Scotland.
At the centre of the programme is Beethoven's Fourth Symphony, its muscular, structural elegance wound around a boisterous scherzo.