Few groups can have had as much music written for them as the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet; after four decades, the tally stands at 340 works. The latest addition to their repertoire, the Chamber Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Strings by Sally Beamish, received its premiere in Glasgow with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Garry Walker the night before this Edinburgh performance.

This is the third time the quartet has worked with the SCO in recent years, and it is arguably the most musically successful. Beamish has recognised the rich potential to be found in the contrasting sonorities of the saxophone quartet and the body of strings. Her piece, inspired by Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, plays with the two groups of instrumentalists, alternately pitting them against each other and bringing them together. The outer movements are characterised by spiky, rather Stravinskian rhythm-generated momentum - something the ensemble did not always manage to achieve - while the rhapsodic central movement uses the mellifluous quality of the saxophone to great effect.

The second half of the concert was given over to an SCO commission from the late 1990s: the Fifth Symphony by Thomas Wilson. It is an intensely atmospheric, nocturnal work, underscored with the sense of a dark, dramatic narrative, that was written only a few years before his death. Coming only weeks after the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland revisited Wilson's Violin Concerto, the performance again showed why his works deserve to be heard more often.