A hundred years ago it took the orchestra of the Ballets Russes months of rehearsals to find their way around The Rite of Spring, and even then nobody at the legendarily riotous premiere could hear much of what they played. Stravinsky's radical masterpiece has since become standard rep, trotted out as breezily as a Beethoven symphony; it's tempting to wonder whether the composer would have felt thwarted by a performance as cool and collected as the one given by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Matthias Pintscher. If a sense of struggle is integral to the violent energy of this work then Pintscher's approach was too lackadaisical.

The opening was knowing and languorous – the rhythms incisive and a little unflexing, the textures crystal-clear, almost clinical. Quiet passages drifted past without any hint of trepidation. But there was thrill in the sheer dynamic force that comes from this orchestra in this acoustic, and in the roaring smack of their ferocious Sacrificial Dance. Even at a century old, that final thump still comes as an almighty shock.

The concert opened with a nod to Stravinsky's taste for the baroque; flautist Yvonne Paterson played with understated grace, but Pintscher's conducting was drab in Bach's Suite No 2 in B minor. Pintscher also conducted the UK premiere of his own Chute d'Etoiles, a dense concerto for two trumpets inspired by the work of the German sculptor Anselm Kiefer and by The Rite of Spring itself. It begins with an earthy clatter from the orchestra before the two soloists (Tine Thing Helseth and Marco Blaauw, both excellent) trade muted, busy dialogue and splashes of virtuosity. Much of the orchestral timbre is organic and guttural, and the whole thing is driven by an indomitable internal force very much inherited from The Rite.

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