Performer: Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Substituting for Riccardo Muti, Gennady Rozhdestvensky lead the CSO in a program of diverse works for string orchestra along with Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, featuring the CSO's principal clarinetist.

Not having appeared with the CSO since 1999, Gennady Rozhdestvensky made a much anticipated return with the first and last symphonies of Shostakovich.

Rimsky-Korsakov's opera remain rarities outside Russia, but the Bolshoi Opera made The Tsar’s Bride the anchor of this year's Hong Kong Arts Festival programme.