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Music for beginnings and endings. It’s hard to find a more famous, or iconically flamboyant, first few seconds than the clarinet solo at the start of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Karina Canellakis conducts the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SSO in a programme featuring Messiaen's Les Offrandes Oubliées, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Hugh Cutting, and Stravinsky's reorchestrated Petrushka.

Rachmaninov, Bernstein and Davóne Tines – a fresh perspective on America’s past, present and future from Daniele Rustioni and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra.

Influenced by Czech folk and expressionism, Haas’s Study for Strings is an energetic, introspective work now seen as a key piece of 20th-century Czech music.

We mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the document of independence with an all American programme featuring some of the most famous American composers in history, from Copland, Barber and Bernstein to William Grant Still and Christopher Tin.