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Every symphony creates a world. ‘Free but happy’ was Brahms’ motto, and he encodes it into the very notes of his third and most colourful symphony – a poetic, storm-swept journey that ends in a golden sunset.

Missy Mazzoli, meanwhile, gazes into the cosmos, and sees stars and planets spiralling to the music of an old-time hurdy-gurdy in her Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres).

It’s amazing what you can do with a mouth organ, and believe us – you’ve never heard an orchestra sound quite like this! But anything’s possible when the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra performs with its chief conductor Anna-Maria Helsing.

Tonight these musical planets orbit around a dazzling new star, with a brand new cello concerto specially created for the glorious sound of cellist Senja Rummukainen by Tebogo Monnakgotla – a composer who grabs sounds and colours from the word around us, and charges them with a fresh kind of wonder.