National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 6 January
Web: nyo.org.uk
Landscapes physical, philosophical and emotional are channelled in the orchestra’s first concerts of 2023. Flanked by Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes and Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, Anna Clyne’s 2016 RIFT ponders chaos and destruction, and dares to hope. Alexandre Bloch conducts.
London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Barbican, London, 11, 13 January
Web: lso.co.uk
Premiered nearly a century ago, Janáček’s opera Kátya Kabanová is a powerful tale of love and loss fuelled by the composer’s infatuation with Kamila Stösslová. Simon Rattle conducts two concert performances featuring Amanda Majeski as Katya, with Andrew Staples and Simon O’Neill as the rival men in her life.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Lighthouse, Poole, 11 January
Web: bsolive.com
Felix Klieser, the orchestra’s current artist-in-residence, gives a rare outing for Glière’s Horn Concerto. It is partnered by Scriabin’s C-minor-to-major Symphony No. 2, and to start, Kirill Karabits
