The BBC doubtless planned the UK premiere of Unsuk Chin's Violin Concerto some time ago, but the announcement in December that the work had been awarded the 2003 prestigious Grawemeyer award for composition gave this performance an extra dimension.

There is no doubting Chin's craftsmanship - born in South Korea in 1961, she studied in Hamburg with Ligeti and now works in Berlin - or the aural imagination that gives her music a real allure. But in the case of the concerto, such textural cleverness seems to clothe a work that, in its four-movement form and relationship between the soloist and the orchestra, is totally conventional.

It has its striking moments, certainly, but they are largely confined to the first movement, and the sharp focus quickly blurs after that. The solo writing - with its showers of glassy harmonics and strenuous double and triple stoppings - is formidably challenging, but here Viviane Hagner, for whom it was written, took all that impressively in her stride, while Martyn Brabbins kept the BBC Symphony Orchestra's touch light.

The concerto was followed by a very different display of virtuosity in Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra, but the real delight of the evening had come first, when Brabbins conducted Paul Dukas's poème dansé La Péri. First performed in 1912, it's a rapturous, sensuous score that pre-dates both Debussy's Jeux and Ravel's La Valse, and seems to have been a significant influence on both better known works. Its glistening surfaces ideally require an orchestra of far more refinement and tonal allure than the BBCSO under the current regime, but Brabbins shaped it unfalteringly and elegantly.