Performance on 3 - Performance on 3

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Petroc Trelawny introduces a performance by the Birmingham orchestra conducted by the young Latvian, Andris Nelsons, who will take over as Music Director of the CBSO in the Autumn. Strauss's opera is a love letter to the Viennese waltz, while a new concerto by Austrian Olga Neuwirth – written for tonight’s soloist Hakan Hardenberger - offers a kaleidoscope of Handel, jazz and other musical memories. Strauss: Suite (Der Rosenkavalier) Neuwirth: miramondo multiplo (UK premiere) Part: Fratres Shostakovich: Symphony No 6, Op 53 Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons (conductor).