Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Frank Peter Zimmermann

Programme to include:

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Overture, Leonore No.3
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Interval
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No.5

Christoph von Dohnányi delves the music of Beethoven and Frank Peter Zimmermann joins for Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.

Beethoven changed the face of music forever. From his Fifth's Symphony's obsession with its famous opening rhythm to his epic Leonore Overture No.3, audiences had never heard anything like it before.

By comparison, Mendelssohn's greatest innovation was a sleight-of-hand brilliance that creates the impression of elfin dreamworlds, floating free of gravity.