The Strathclyde Concertos are a series of ten orchestral works by the English composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
Commissioned by Strathclyde Regional Council, each work features an instrumental soloist and small orchestra.
Davies spotlights the soloists in some of the concertos by eliminating the instrument's counterparts in the orchestra.
Likewise, in the Third Strathclyde Concerto, for horn and trumpet (1989), Davies excludes all of the brass instruments from the orchestra.
This concerto is based on two pre-existent works: Haydn's overture L'isola disabitata and a two-part setting of the opening line of Ecclesiastes, "Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas" by the early seventeenth-century composer Jan Albert Ban.