AS listeners to Radio 3's Hear And Now strand on Saturday night will know, those among an initially very full house who found the music of New York's John Zorn too challenging to return after the interval missed the better part of the evening.
Even if you are familiar with the writer and saxophonist's work from the album The Big Gundown or the small group Naked City, his orchestral work was probably still unknown. This concert by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov was not just the first celebration of the composer's 60th-birthday year, it was also the first concert entirely of his works by an orchestra anywhere ever.
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