Devised by conductor Rory Macdonald, the programme includes works that share the themes of loss, love and life. Jay Capperauld’s flute concerto Our Gilded Veins takes centre-stage, with Principal Flautist Katherine Bryan giving the world premiere recording of the work that was written especially for her. Within Her Arms, Anna Clyne’s ‘fragile elegy’ (The New Yorker), James MacMillan’s legend-based The Death of Oscar and the commemorative For Zoe, Martin Suckling’s Meditation (after Donne) – which features church bells from across Scotland – and Peter Maxwell Davies’s Farewell to Stromness (in an arrangement for strings by Rosemary Furniss), which arguably features the composer’s most recognisable tune, complete the programme.