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Live from the Â鶹Éç Proms: the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov perform music by Brahms, Stravinsky and Gabrieli.

Presented by Tom Service, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Gabrieli: In ecclesiis (ed. Maderna)
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles

c. 8pm interval Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's latest novel is called Venetian Vespers. He shares his interest in classical music with Tom Service and talks about Venice as an inspiration for writers and composers.

c. 8:25pm Gabrieli: Canzone a tre core (ed. Maderna)
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Jess Dandy, contralto
Ashley Riches, bass-baritone
National Youth Choir
Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

Solemn ritual and holiday sunshine collide in a concert by Ilan Volkov and the Â鶹Éç Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The incense-scented processional splendour of Gabrieli’s In ecclesiis and Canzone a tre core, transcribed with contemporary clarity by Bruno Maderna, frame Stravinsky’s last major work – the ‘pocket-requiem’ he knew he was ‘writing for himself’. Step out of church and into the pastoral warmth of Brahms’s happiest symphony, written on the slopes of the Austrian Alps: 'all blue sky, babbling streams, sunshine and cool green shade.'