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The Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra presents Requiem for America: Singing for the Invisible People — Brent Michael Davids’s searing work which confronts hard truths about America’s founding.

Strangers in a strange land: Sakari Oramo conducts music by Bartók and Korngold, European composers stranded in America and dreaming of a better world.

Piano superstar Yunchan Lim joins Dalia Stasevska and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra for Ravel’s bluesy Concerto in G major. We also hear music by Copland, Gershwin and Finzi, alongside a world premiere from French-British composer Josephine Stephenson

Sakari Oramo and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra perform Mahler’s brooding Sixth Symphony, and celebrate the centenary of Hungary’s greatest living composer, György Kurtág, with a rare performance of his powerful orchestral elegy Stele

Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos joins Paavo Järvi and the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Bookending the evening are Scriabin’s iconoclastic Symphony No. 2 and the world premiere of Dani Howard’s Concerto for Brass

Sunrise, celebration and brave new worlds, as the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra plays Copland’s Rodeo – plus showstoppers by Bartók and Chelsea Komschlies, too.

Dark ships and shining seas: John Adams’s Harmonielehre is the dazzling climax to a concert celebrating the American dream at its most terrible – and hopeful.

Passions run high as countertenor Hugh Cutting sings Jonathan Dove’s dramatic Hojoki – plus orchestral showstoppers by Liszt and Dorothy Howell.

Hollywood dreams meet all-American nightmares. Fabien Gabel conducts the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra in music from Vertigo and The Sea Hawk – and dives into the myths and memories of a new American century.

Conductor-composer Jack Sheen reunites with the Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra for a thrilling programme of recently composed and brand-new works.