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birth sign. Both feature in an appropriately Catalan-themed programme marking the
composer’s 125th anniversary.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Lighthouse, Poole, 1 December

Ryan Wigglesworth is both soloist and conductor, as Mozart’s sunny A major Piano
Concerto K414 prefaces a work Dvořák characterised as about ‘Love, God and my
fatherland’, his D minor Symphony No. 7. There’s more ‘fatherland’ at the outset:
Janáček’s bucolic Lachian Dances.

Sinfonia Cymru

Riverfront, Newport, 1 December

The orchestra slims down to chamber forces and summons its winds for a lunchtime
concert, crowning works by Rossini, Mendelssohn and Koechlin with a quartet by
Rossini’s near-contemporary Vincenzo Gambaro.

Echo Vocal Ensemble

Priory, Lancaster, 2 December

The natural world and climate change are exercising Echo Vocal Ensemble in a line-
up stretching from 12th-century Hildegard of Bingen to brand new pieces by Lillie
Harris and Rory Wainwright Johnston. Along the way they encounter works by
Clemens non Papa, Schütz, Palestrina, Britten and Judith Weir.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

City Halls, Glasgow, 2 December

It’s quite Tchaikovsky’s month for the BBC SSO, what with the Piano Concerto No. 1
on 9 December and his Symphony No. 6 here. But associate conductor Alpesh
Chauhan has less familiar fare up his sleeve to introduce Tchaikovsky’s Sixth:
Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 2, over 30 years in the making, and,
performed by mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, the 23-year-old Korngold’s
elegiac Abschiedslieder.

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Percussion Ensemble

CBSO Centre, Birmingham, 3 December

Teamed with students from the Birmingham Conservatory, two members of the
orchestra head up a conspectus of contemporary percussion music starting