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this article  Proms Review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra  This was
programming from Robin Ticciati and the SCO, Berlioz alongside
Mendelssohn juxtaposing two very different approaches to
romanticism and with the fire and drama of Beethoven prefaced by
the cool clarity of Bach.  Berlioz's King Lear overture is a
strange, unsettling work. Mendlessohn's First Piano Concerto is
a different proposition entirely, dramatic but - unlike Berlioz
- never self-consciously so. Stephen Hough was the soloist,
flying through the sparkling passagework of the outer movements
with ease. The chorale-like passage was particularly effective;
Hough's delicate timbre supported by the hushed tone of the
lower SCO strings.  However, George Benjamin's arrangements of
Bach - two movements from the Art of Fugue - belonged to a
different sound world.  With the opening chords of Eroica the
programme came together with Beethoven as the culmination of the
tradition that originated