The concerts, which also include Itzhak Perlman performing Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, will be broadcast the week of October 9.

Henze, an 80-year-old German composer, composed the 15-minute orchestral work in 2004; it was given its world premiere by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in December 2005. His opera L'Upupa ("The Hoopoe, and the Triumph of Filial Love") was premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2003; he has also composed many other operas, chamber music and symphonic works.