PROMS / BBC Scottish SO / Takuo Yuasa - Royal Albert Hall / Radio 3

Nature has a way of uplifting even the sternest moments of Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, whether in the birdsong carollings of its slow-movement woodwind solos, or the rocky ruggedness of its first moment and finale. The task facing Takuo Yuasa and the BBC Scottish SO at Tuesday's early evening prom was simply to tame this flood of expression; to sustain through four highly contrasted movements the symphonic potential of its taut, opening paragraph.

In the event they succeeded magnificently. Flute and horns offered precise, mellifluous playing already honed by an almost operatic reading of Berlioz's Les Nuits d'ete, where soprano Isabelle Vernet had ranged from burning outrage to hushed despair. Few singers perform this cycle with such conviction.

The evening's revival was Iain Hamilton's Dante-inspired Commedia: Concerto for Orchestra. Though its three movements suggest a slow processional through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, the musical imagery belongs firmly in the first of those regions. Cunningly built from a handful of gestures and quotations, its tough directness argues for the reassessment of a composer (70 this year) whose voice is now too seldom heard.