The BBC Symphony Orchestra is certainly honouring its agreement with its first composer in association, Mark-Anthony Turnage. This concert, conducted by its former music director Andrew Davis, was its second programme within a month to include a Turnage piece.

Although this was described as the European premiere of Turnage's Four-Horned Fandango, it was actually the first time the revised version of the score had been heard on this side of the Atlantic. Turnage composed the piece in 1996 as a tribute to the horn players of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Simon Rattle conducted the first performance in Birmingham the following year. Two years ago Turnage reworked the piece when Davis and the BBCSO wanted to take it on a South American tour, and that was the version that began this programme.

It is an elusive piece. The dance of the title is embedded at its centre and signalled by castanets, tambourine and orchestral syncopations; what surrounds that fandango, though, is musically more striking. The four horns are set against strings, harp, piano and percussion; they emerge from dark, slippery textures at the opening and subside back into them at the close. Despite the virtuosity of the horn writing, this isn't a concertante piece, more a distinctive concert opener with a quizzical ending.

Certainly the Fandango was the most memorable part of the BBCSO's programme. It was followed by Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, with the soloist, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, apparently determined to be as racy, slick and superficial as possible; and then by Poulenc's Stabat Mater, which put the BBC Symphony Chorus in the spotlight, while Judith Howarth sang the woozy solo soprano lines. Davis tried very hard to avoid sentimentality, but Poulenc's idea of religiosity - neoclassical austerity alternated with moments of sensuous bathos and the occasional outbreak of pure kitsch - is not to everyone's taste, definitely not to mine.