Music review: BBC SSO, City Halls, Glasgow

Bray, Hopkins, Hyde and Burrell... yes, it was one of those BBC SSO Hear and Now concerts, where the music is new and non-mainstream and the spirit of adventure rides high. These concerts can be a hit or miss experience, and Saturday’s – which got off to a bit of a hiccup start when the opening work had to be repeated due to a failure in recording it – ranged in style from the somewhat arid, screaming abstractions of John Hopkins Double Concerto for trumpet and alto saxophone, to the tonal safety-net governing Thomas Hyde’s robust Symphony; from the “futuristic” soundscapes of Charlotte Bray’s Stone Dancer to the kaleidoscopic narrative of Diana Burrell’s Resurrection.