Another fine mini-series from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, whose range and no-nonsense rigour makes them purveyors of choice for interesting orchestral programmes in Scotland. This time they turn their focus to Bartók and Hindemith under conductor Martyn Brabbins, with Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen in residence for all three of Bartók's piano concertos.

The first concert also featured a "new" left-hand concerto by Hindemith – the UK premiere of his Klaviermusik mit Orchester, Op 29. The work was written nearly a century ago but the one-armed pianist who commissioned it, Paul Wittgenstein, neither premiered it himself nor allowed anyone else to. The score was rediscovered when Wittgenstein's widow died in 2002, and we should be glad it was: this is chunky, pounding early Hindemith, its bolshy outer movements dense with square-set modernist bravura, its slow movement unwinding a lovely duet for piano and cor anglais over a pizzicato walking bass. Mustonen's penchant for off-beat accenting made these lyrical passages sound improvised and swung; elsewhere his attack was fearlessly hammered out. If the odd junction sounded like a first performance (piano and winds came unstuck a few times) there was no mistaking the kinetic impact of the piece. It deserves its place alongside the left-hand concertos by Ravel and Prokofiev.

The rest of the programme – Hindemith's symphony Mathis der Maler and Bartók's Dance Suite and Third Piano Concerto – was tackled with grit, dark wit and empathy. This is ideal repertoire for the BBCSSO, with its beefy lower strings, its bright, biting brass and searing violins. Brabbins approached the tricksy rhythms of the Dance Suite with cool-blooded directness. Mustonen's account of the concerto, too, showed him as a fantastically inventive musician: the opening bars alone sounded nostalgic, exploratory and totally fresh.

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