Janáček Suite for Strings

William Sweeney Westlin Winds in Autumn (after Autumn from Vivaldi's Four Seasons) - premiere

solo bass clarinet Sarah Watts

Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

Tenor Jamie MacDougall

Horn Fergus Kerr

Conductor Paul MacAlindin

Music and poetry with BBC Scotland's own Classics Unwrapped presenter, Jamie MacDougall and The Wallace Collection's Fergus Kerr bringing Britten's translucent Serenade to life through Tennyson, Blake, Keats and others.

Our final FOUR SEASONS IN ONE DAY, new concerti after Vivaldi by four Scottish composers with four different soloists. William Sweeney writes for virtuoso Sarah Watts, fresh from her annual bass clarinet course on the Isle of Raasay. Robert Burns' warm, autumnal love song, Now Westlin Winds, inspires, a nod to the sonnets Vivaldi used to describe his own four seasons.

Janáček's Suite for Strings, an extreme rarity in the repertoire, shifts complex dark and light tones across the evening.