Music review: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & Georgia Jarman, Royal Albert Hall, London

ILAN Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra opened this Proms programme with a new work by the Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith entitled Nuages, and no critic could improve on her own eloquent description of it. The orchestral images in her mind as she composed it included “the veiled haze of strings, tangled thicket of woodwinds, and soft fog of percussion”.