Amy Dickson, the young Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist, joins the Scottish Ensemble in two powerful pieces for classical saxophone – Glazunov’s lyrical yet scintillatingly virtuosic Saxophone Concerto, and the profound spirituality of Georgian composer Giya Kancheli’s captivating Night Prayers.

The programme’s transformative journey from darkness to light contrasts Shostakovich’s deeply personal Chamber Symphony, a transcription by Rudolf Barshai of the composer’s monument to ‘the victims of fascism and war’, his autobiographical String Quartet No. 8, with Tchaikovsky’s radiant Serenade for Strings.