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Sir Andrew Davis conducts Elgar’s evergreen ‘Enigma’ Variations before the Â鶹Éç SO is joined by the Â鶹Éç Symphony Chorus and superb soloists for Bliss’s powerful cantata, The Beatitudes.

A half dozen of Varése’s finest scores for orchestra round off the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra’s 360-degree exploration of the maverick composer’s works.

Two works by two Hungarian composers sit side by side in a dramatic highlight of the Â鶹Éç SO’s season – Bartók’s virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra and the UK premiere of living composer Peter Eötvös’s one-act opera, Senza Sangue.

Experience the music of Scandinavian contemporaries Nielsen and Sibelius, whose music is close to the heart of the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo

Lothar Koenigs conducts Bruckner’s hugely popular symphony, while Nicolas Hodges is soloist in the irrepressible German composer Wolfgang Rihm’s beautiful Second Piano Concerto.