Synopsis

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra journeys to the Royal Albert Hall under its new music director, Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. International virtuoso Midori will perform as soloist in Walton's Violin Concerto, with a program framed by works from Richard Strauss: his tone poem *Don Juan* and the opera *Salome*, featuring Nadezhda Serdiuk as soloist in the *Dance of the Seven Veils*. The CBSO Chorus will perform Prokofiev's patriotic cantata, drawn from the music he composed for Se