Behind the music
List of News Articles

The SCO Chorus' favourite masses
30 March 2026
How to choose among the hundreds of masses that have been written over the centuries? Let the SCO Chorus be your guide ...
The SCO Chorus on music for Lent
29 March 2026
With Easter just around the corner, we delve into perhaps the richest (and often darkest) choral repertoire of all ...
The viola comes out of the shadows
23 March 2026
How two British violists brought the instrument into the spotlight
Czech composers (beyond Dvořák)
16 March 2026
How many others can you name?Quickfire Questions with Francesca Gilbert
9 March 2026
Get to know the Orchestra's newest violist!
Roderick Williams: "The Language of Eden is a lyrical piece full of beautiful textures"
23 February 2026
Ahead of his return to the SCO in March, we spoke to Roderick Williams about his wide-ranging career.
Dreamers' Circus: "we've never really worried too much about genre"
16 February 2026
Classical and folk meet in our concerts with Dreamers' Circus, so who better to talk us through how it happens?
The great Beethoven symphonies
9 February 2026
In which we bite the bullet and look at four unmissable works
Wrongfully marginalised: a history of women composers
2 February 2026
To celebrate International Women's Day, we look at the changing fortunes of women composers over the centuries.
Beethoven's 'lesser' symphonies
26 January 2026
Why are some Beethoven symphonies better-known than others?
Concert and insertion arias: a primer
26 January 2026
In which we look at the practice of exchanging one aria for another in operas - and not always for the best of reasons ...
Joseph Joachim and the great German violin concertos
19 January 2026
Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bruch and Brahms: four violin concertos, all connected by a single violinist.