Rufus Isabel Elliot New Work   BBC Commission, World Premiere
Linda Buckley Mallacht BBC Commission, World Premiere*
Scott McLaughlin The Dirac Sea: Folds in continuous fields World Premiere
Break -
Somei Satoh    Prelude   World Premiere ‡

Linda Buckley electronics*
Aki Takahashi  piano ‡
Maayan Franco conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

The BBC SSO presents 4 World Premieres for orchestra, conducted by Maayan Franco.  Rufus Isabel Elliot’s music has been called ‘fluid and ambitious’ (The Wire) and ‘stunningly intimate’ (The Quietus) and its newly commissioned work for the BBC SSO’s strings has a buried refence ‘to a plea a woman makes in a traditional ballad, to give her attacker her daughter instead, or as much money as there's stones in the street’. Linda Buckley’s new work is also steeped in her own background of sean nós (old style) unaccompanied Gaelic song, taking as inspiration ancient Pagan and Druid chants and texts, ritual and incantations, aural illusion and immersion. 

Scott McLaughlin’s music ‘ is about the physical nature of sound; the contingent ways that acoustic phenomena unfold in time to form patterns shifting between predictability and unpredictability, and how we perceive pattern and organisation.’ His BBC commission receives its World Premiere, delayed by the pandemic. And to close, a new work from one of Japan’s most celebrated voices, Somei Satoh, with the dazzling Aki Takahashi on piano.