That's just one of the highlights of the season, which features 12 main concerts, an afternoon concert for schools, two Beanbag Proms designed to introduce youngsters to the instruments of the orchestra through songs and stories, plus a new venture — a Drivetime Concert at 6pm next June.

Tickets are £5 for this thrill-a-minute trip, courtesy of the Halle which promises everything from Mozart and Beethoven to Sibelius an Tchaikovsky, plus film music from William Walton and John Williams.

OCTOBER
Saturday 25th — The Halle, under Markus Stenz, play Weber's overture 'Der Frieschutz', Beethoven's 'Triple Concerto' with soloists Paul Barritt (violin), Nicholas Trygstad (cello) and Jonathan Scott (piano) and Stravinky's 'The Rite of Spring.'

NOVEMBER
Saturday 8th — The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play Holst's ballet music from 'The Perfect Fool' and Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending' with solo violin Laurence Jackson. The programme also features Vaughan Williams' large scale 'A Sea Symphony' featuring the orchestra, soloists Janice Watson (soprano) and Roderick Williams (baritone) plus Nottingham harmonic Society chorus.

Tuesday 18th — Works by two great Romantic composers, which feature in sinfonia ViVA's programme include Beethoven's 'Corolian' overture and his '5th Symphony,' plus from a different century Samuel Barber's testing 'violin concerto' with soloist Ruth Palmer, and his famous 'Adagio for Strings.'

DECEMBER
Thursday 4th — Tenor Alfie Boe stars in this festive favourite with the Halle which aims to mix great operatic arias and Christmas classics in a programme which includes Holst's 'In the Bleak Midwinter', Tchaikovsky's suite from 'The Nutcracker' and Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Christmas Polonaise' plus hit tunes from Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly', Donizetti's 'L'Elisir d'Amore' and Flotow's 'Martha.'

JANUARY
Friday 30th — Violinist Alina Pogostkina returns to the city to dazzle in Tchaikovsky's 'Violin Concerto' in a halle programme which also includes Vaughan Williams 'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis' and Danish composer's Carl Nielsen's ground-breaking and not-to-be missed '5th Symphony.'

FEBURUARY
Thursday 12th — Andre Litton conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra a triple treat which showcases Grieg's 'Symphonic Dances', Mendelssohn's 'Violin Concerto' with soloist Leila Josefowicz, and Walton's energetic '1st Symphony.'

Tuesday 24th — Another concert by sinfonia ViVA, the highlight of which is Mendelssohn's youthful 'Concerto for Violin and Piano' providing the perfect patnership for Latvian sisters Baiba (violin) and Lauma Skride (piano). The programme also includes Wagner's birthday gift 'Siegfried Idyll', J. S. Bach's '3rd Brandeburg Concerto', and Mozart's '39th Symphony.'

MARCH
Thursday 5th — Two Beethoven favourites, his '4th Piano Concerto' and his '3rd Symphony (Eroica)' share the programme with Haydn's jaunty '87th Symphony' on tonight's programme given by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Lothar Zagrosek.

Monday 23rd — Return visit for the CBSO with Schubert's '9th Symphony (The Great)' sharing the bill with two Russian classics, Glinka's overture to 'Russlan and Ludilla' and Tchaikovsky's '1st Piano Concerto.'

APRIL
Thursday 9th — Leading British cellist Natalie Clein makes her first to the city, in the company of the Halle and conductor Sir Mark Elder, to play Tchaikovsky's 'Variations on a Rocco Theme' in a programme that also features Beethoven's 'Egmont' overture, Haydn's '49th symphony' and Mendelssohn's '3rd Symphony.'

Tuesday 28th — Legendary french piano Jean-Philippe Collard brings his skills to the front in 'Ravel's Piano Concerto in G' in a Royal Philharmonic Orchestra programmre which includes Berlioz's 'Le Corsaire' overture and excerpts from Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet.'

JUNE
Thursday 18th — The Halle, under the baton of Rory Macdonald, round off the main concert season with Beethoven's 'Fidelio' overture, Brahms' 'Violin Concerto' with soloist Valerij Sokolov, and Dvorak's '9th Symphony (From the New World).'

And for those who can't wait, the Nottingham Classics' new programmer, Neil Bennison, will be introducing the 2009-2010 season in a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm.

For further details of tickets, £9 to £30, contact the Royal Concert Hall box office on 0115-989-5555, or check the website:
www/nottinghamclassics.org.uk