Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in Aberdeen

The evening

Musical fireworks launch the BBC SSO’s new season at the Music Hall as the exceptional British violinist Chloë Hanslip performs Tchaikovsky’s sunlit Violin Concerto, a work that can’t quite decide whether to sing or to dance, and ends up doing both in the most tuneful way imaginable. Guest Conductor Mihhail Gerts has programmed two unsung masterpieces from his native Estonia. Swansong by Arvo Pärt captures twilight with the clarity and emotional depth that have made him the world’s most performed living composer, now in his 90s. And to finish, discover the sumptuous beauty, defiance and raw power of Eduard Tubin, Estonia’s greatest 20th-century symphonist.