Classical highlights for the week ahead: 6-13 November

Soprano Anu Komsi with conductor Sakari Oramo, who perform Lindberg’s Accused at the Barbican on 6 November/ Photograph: Maarit Kytoharju

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo

The BBCSO’s first live concert of the autumn at the Barbican includes the world premiere of a chamber-orchestra arrangement of Magnus Lindberg’s 2015 work Accused, with Anu Komsi as the protagonist. Sakari Oramo conducts, and prefaces the new work with Haydn’s La Passione symphony, No 49 in F minor, and Anna Clyne’s string meditation, Within Her Arms.
• 6 November, live stream (£) from the Barbican (not available on demand)

Aurora Orchestra

The Aurora Orchestra began its cycle of Mozart’s piano concertos five years ago, and continues now with chamber-scale versions of the late works. Louis Schwizgebel is the soloist in the penultimate concerto, the D major K537; the concert also includes Ravel’s Piano Trio and the world premiere of a work by Sasha Scott, winner of the 2019 BBC Young Composers Competition.
• 7 November, live streamed (£) from Kings Place (not available on demand)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Kirill Karabits and his orchestra mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven with a complete performance of his only ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus. Magnus Lindberg’s Absence, which gets its UK premiere, is a Beethoven tribute too, inspired by the great man’s private conversation books.
• 11 November, live streamed from the Lighthouse, Poole, and then available on demand until 11 December (£)

Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, whose work features in two concerts this week Photograph: Credit: Hanya Chlala / ArenaPAL

Psappha

The Manchester new-music group continues its series of concerts with a trio of socially distanced instrumentalists; Betsy Jolas’s Quatre Duos, Berio’s folksong-inspired Naturale, for viola, percussion and tape, and Helmut Lachenmann’s solo-piano Serynade, frame the world premiere of Clare Elton’s Round and round and... for piano.
• 12 November, live-streamed from Hallé St Peters, Manchester.

Royal Northern Sinfonia

Violinist Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in Bach’s E major Violin Concerto, and she directs the RNS in George Walker’s Lyric for strings, and Mahler’s magnificent string-orchestra arrangement of Schubert’s D minor Quartet, Death and the Maiden.
• 13 November, live streamed (£) from Sage Gateshead (not available on demand).