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SCO, City Hall, Glasgow

No violins, a bad cold and a fabulous orchestration: Just three factors that, variously, gave a rich colouring to the first half of the SCO’s intriguing concert on Friday night.

I have not heard Brahms’s Second Serenade played with such finesse as was wrought from the piece by conductor John Storgards and a reduced SCO ensemble.