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Thomas Søndergård steers the RSNO into the finale of their first digital season with Nicky Spence luminous in Britten’s Les Illuminations and the players joyous in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

Stepping in at the last minute, conductor Thomas Søndergård offered a program that didn’t fully adhere to the orchestra’s planned exploration of Berlin in the Weimar era.

Vision 2020 is the snappy title the LPO uses for contrasting works from different centuries. Here Thomas Søndergård danced his way through Ravel, Bent Sørensen and Schubert.

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its chief conductor Thomas Søndergård have little to say about Beethoven’s First Symphony, but in partnership with Midori much more about that composer’s Violin Concerto.

RSNO opens its digital season with Thomas Søndergård conducting Haydn’s The Bear and Beethoven’s Eroica. The extraordinary tale of Joseph Bologne links all as Maya Iwabuchi plays his Violin Concerto in A major.

Thomas Søndergård and the RSNO on top form in Strauss’ dramatic Also Sprach Zarathustra, and Mahler’s life affirming Das Lied von der Erde.