In the summer of 1901 Scott vacationed with Hans Lüthy and his family in Switzerland. During this trip Scott wrote a prelude to Aglavaine and Selysette, one movement of a piano quartet and a piano sonata. He also began work on a piano sextet and developed plans to start a requiem and an opera. In the autumn he wrote his second symphony.

Over the next few years Scott's musical career continued to develop and his notoriety increased through a series of very lucky associations similar to the de Haan arrangement. Lüthy who had been such an untiring supporter of Scott since his Oxton days, arranged for him to have a meeting with Hans Richter. The meeting resulted in Richter performing Scott's second large orchestral work, the Heroic Suite, on 12 December 1901 in Manchester to “half-hearted” applause, and then again in Liverpool, where it enjoyed a more successful reception. Scott became reasonably good friends with Richter and on a number of occassions joined him for afternoon tea and sardines. He recalled with some amusement Richter's disparagement of Henry Wood and the aims of the Promenade Concerts. Richter derided the younger conductor's efforts at bringing great music to the masses: “To think that he should go and give Beethoven's Ninth Symphony—the most beautiful thing that exists in the whole of music—and give it while people take walks.”