Live choice
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 1 January Web: sco.org.uk
It wouldn’t be New Year’s Day without a sprinkling of seasonal Viennoiserie. But conductor Jiří Ro eň casts his net beyond the Austrian frontier to augment the Strauss family with their namesake, the German Richard Strauss, plus Lehár and Dvořák.
London Symphony Orchestra
Barbican, London, 6 January Web: barbican.org.uk
The LSO under Simon Rattle marks Epiphany with the world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Violin Concerto No. 2 Scherben der Stille, played by Leonidas Kavakos, the violinist who inspired the work. Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7 and the Suite from Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin complete the concert.
