Leslie Suganandarajah by Various, Ó (2022/2022), Seoltóir Leslie Suganandarajah, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom

Leslie Suganandarajah steers us through our final concert of the year in a programme that explores desire, grief and hope. We witness a pact with the Devil in Emilie Mayer’s Faust Overture before mezzo-soprano Christa Mayer joins the orchestra for a performance of Gustav Mahler’s grief-stricken Kindertotenlieder. Rife with passionate impulses and exhilaratingly dramatic twists, we end the programme with Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony – the fullest expression of a profoundly emotional man’s feelings are shared with us through his music.