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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.

I nodi 250 mlynedd ers llofnodi’r datganiad annibyniaeth, dyma raglen hollol Americanaidd yn cynnwys rhai o gyfansoddwyr enwocaf erioed America, o Copland, Barber a Bernstein i William Grant Still a Christopher Tin.