LIMP Bizkit, a name which strikes awe into the heart of today's skating teens, is likely to mean little or nothing to your average jazz fan.

Likewise Gilead Atzmon, one of the rising stars of the jazz scene, will have no familiar ring for Eminem fans.

So the news that the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra will be visiting Cardiff later this year will mean nothing at all to anyone except fans of classical music... who'll be rushing to get tickets.

St David's Hall have announced the line-up for their 2003/04 Orchestral Concert Series and there are plenty of big names on show.

October's concert by the aforementioned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, is probably the biggest.

They'll be playing the work of Brahms and Dvorak, and 20-year-old Julia Fischer will be performing on violin.

In November the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg will play music by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert, and next January it will be the turn of the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera to take the stage, performing Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev.

It's 50 years since the death of Prokofiev, overshadowed at the time because he died within 12 hours of Stalin, and there's more of his music in February with the Philharmonia Orchestra, who'll also play Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

In March the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven, with conductor Andras Schiff also playing piano, and in April the London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Britten and Mahler.

The Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera return at the end of April, and the nine-concert series concludes in May when the Czech National Symphony Orchestra visit Cardiff to play John Adams, Smetana, Ravel and Prokofiev. As usual you can buy tickets for individual concerts or for four or more of the entire series. For more details call the box office on 02920 878444.

PICTURED: Cloe Hanslip, of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.