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Stravinsky came off more like a distillation of Mozartian than Bachian abstraction and the musicians responded with glee to the music's circus atmosphere.

From the trials in love of a libertine, through the death of an angel, to the rise of an emperor, Rustioni takes charge of a rollercoaster evening of emotional turbulence.

In the second instalment of his Strauss and Shostakovich exploration, Payare directs the Ulster Orchestra in two hugely contrasting works premiered in times of conflict.