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Brahms made a couple of appearances in this London Symphony Orchestra programme under Thomas Adès – one as a composer, the other as the subject of a composition.

There are over 450 children from babes-in-arms through to 14-year-olds involved in Big Noise, the orchestra programme launched in 2008 by the charity Sistema Scotland.

He will conduct two London Symphony Orchestra programmes featuring work by Schoenberg, Bartók, Stravinsky and a British premiere from the young German composer Matthias Pintscher.

The surprise would be if new and new-ish music weren't part of these orchestras' programmes.

For the Aurora Orchestra's programme with soprano Claire Booth, Anderson placed a 1990s score of his own and the first performance of a commission from Augusta Read Thomas alongside works by Stravinsky, Ravel and Birtwistle that, he said, were "absolute classics which are almost never heard in London concerts these days".

It's a bonus, too, that the orchestra's programmes are so unfailingly varied and ingenious; this one began with CPE Bach and ended with Grieg.

Boston Arms, N19, Thu John Robinson Contemporary works have become much more regular features of the National Youth Orchestra's programmes in recent years.

"The thing with these sorts of pieces is that they took a long time to work out," says conductor Nicholas Collon, whose groundbreaking Aurora Orchestra often programmes seemingly 'unplayable' works, to memorable effect.

In 1985 Dankworth founded the London Symphony Orchestra's pops programme, and became its musical director.

The next day Knussen conducts the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in a programme that debuts his new piece for piano and orchestra composed for Peter Serkin.

Oliver Knussen kicks it off with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a programme that includes Britten's Spring Symphony and Cantata Academica, and the premiere of a commission from Ryan Wigglesworth.