Playing a pair of ideas off against each other can achieve as satisfying a musical menu as you could wish for. Here, Brahms plays Haydn - the grand master of variations form - at his own game before we hear Haydn's long lost cello concerto. Then two great German composers travel south for a taste of Italian song and dance.

PRE-CONCERT TALK is Jean-Guihen Queryas, the guest soloist, in conversation with SCO Principal Cello David Watkin.