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The Dunedin Messiah, a speciality with Baroque instruments, is given with soloists Nardus Williams, Lotte Betts-Dean, Joshua Ellicott and Dingle Yandell in Perth, directed by John Butt.

Jonathan Morton leads the Scottish Ensemble in Górecki’s extraordinary Quasi una fantasia, before diving headlong into seven Anna Meredith tracks, featuring visuals by Ewan Jones Morris.

Sir James MacMillan conducts the BBC Scottish SO in the Scottish premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra, “Ghosts”. 

The Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Frizza conducting mix homeland sounds of Liszt and Kodály with Beethoven and Rachmaninov. 

On a short UK tour, players from Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum perform Bach’s Mass in B minor for the first time, conducted by David Hill.

Composed for Baroque and modern players with Gertrude Stein’s spoken text, Heiner Goebbels Songs of War I Have Seen in an intriguing performance conducted by Ellie Slorach. 

Intense Pärt, vivid Rachmaninov with Barry Douglas and dramatic Dvořák on the most northerly point on the orchestra's UK tour. 

The Marian Consort open the Perth Festival of the Arts with a specially curated programme of Scottish Renaissance music with modern work from Dani Howard and Electra Perivolaris. 

Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony and his incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream are performed at Perth Concert Hall. 

Rachel Redmond is a sweet voiced Galatea in the Dunedin Consort's performance of the Cannons version of Acis and Galatea in Perth. 

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform an evening of luminous early Mozart, lively Johann Strauss II and vivid Schoenberg. 

The RSNO welcomes the audience back in a light and joyful French programme conducted by Thomas Søndergård with its own oboist Adrian Wilson as soloist in L'Horloge de flore.

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra wraps up Perth Festival in style with a cheerful Mozart symphony and Nicola Bendetti revisiting Mendelssohn’s Violin concerto.

In the return of live concerts to Scotland, saxophonist and pianist give an exciting recital in Perth Concert Hall.

Russian soprano Ilona Domnich, pianist Sholto Kynoch and enthusiast Michael White in a programme of songs and speech reflecting Rachmaninov’s colourful life.

A short, tender MacMillan piece, filmic Sibelius and an astonishing percussion concerto from Rautavaara written for – and performed by – Colin Currie rounds off a successful SCO digital series of concerts.

Percussionist Louise Goodwin and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra take us on an exhilarating rhythmic 300 year ride.

SCO cellist Philip Higham plays memorable Rococo Variations, bookended by lively Schubert conducted by the dynamic Maxim Emelyanychev.

A dream team of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra directed by Pekka Kussisto, with Allan Clayton and Alec Frank-Gemmill astonish with two modern icons: Clyne’s Within Her Arms and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings.

A deeply soulful musical adventure for a winter’s night from the Scottish Ensemble to celebrate their 50th anniversary

In a thrilling summer concert, Dionysis Grammenos conducts music from Panufnik, Schumann and a barnstorming Kabalevsky Second Symphony.

The Russian Philharmonic of Novosibirsk under Thomas Sanderling with pianist Sergei Redkin gave a thrilling closing concert at Perth Festival of the Arts in an all-Russian programme.