Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

Leipzig’s finest, the Gewandhausorchester under chief conductor Riccardo Chailly, return to the Barbican for a four-concert residency that begins with a family event and continues on Wednesday with Richard Strauss’s tone poems ‘Ein Heldenleben’ (‘A Hero’s Life’) and ‘Don Juan’, which bookend Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 (with soloist Maria João Pires).