Barber’s concert overture to The School for Scandal bursts with wit and youthful energy. In between cheeky tunes and bustling rhythms, lies a haunting lyrical theme so characteristic of Barber’s maturity.

Copland’s “The City” was set to a short documentary film from 1939. It attempts to contrast the evils of the industrialised city with the idyllic conditions one finds in small-town America

Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” is one of his most famous and popular orchestral works. It is a dizzying whirl of colourful rhapsodic invention portraying the experiences of a visitor to that romantic city, Paris.