This month will see the continuation of the intense program of the 2011-2012 season of Milan’s “Giuseppe Verdi” Symphonic Orchestra; all concerts on the calendar will be held at Milan’s Largo Mahler-based Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo. www.laverdi.org

■ Symphonic Season

2, 3, 5 February

Helmuth Rilling, conductor
Music by F. Mendelssohn- Bartholdy

9, 10, 12 February

Anna Tifu, violin
Aldo Ceccato, conductor
Music by A. Dvořàk (Carnival Ouverture, Concert for violin and orchestra in A minor op. 53, Symphony no. 7)

16, 17, 19 February

Radovan Vlatkovic, horn
John Axelrod, conductor
Music by G. Battistelli and W.A. Mozart

23, 24, 26 February

Kolly D’Alba, violin
John Axelrod, conductor
Music by K. Szymanowski, Debussy and P.I. Čajkovskij (Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake)

■ “laVerdi Barocca” Cycle

8 February (8.30pm)

Ruben Jais, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach, “Brandenburg Concerto
no. 2 BWV 1047 &
no. 4 BWV 1049”
Alessandro Scarlatti,
“Concerti Grossi no. 1-6”

■ “Crescendo in Musica” Cycle

4 February (3.30pm)

G. Negri, “Pierino Porcospino”

25 February (3.30pm)

G. Negri, “Pulcinella’s Tarantella”

■ MAGGIOREminore Cycle

19 February (11am)

“Bartók”
Giuseppe Grazioli, conductor
Music by G. Holst, J. Canteloube and B. Bartók