BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

(Litton) is a musician of real depth, character and calibre. And the evidence for that was all over his work with the SSO on Thursday. He captured exactly the stillness that, it seems to me, lies at the core of Wagner's Parsifal Prelude, allowing the strings to glow softly and the brass to gleam, with an astonishing purity of playing at the peak of the music from trumpeter Mark O'Keeffe. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal, Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sibelius: Symphony No. 1