Steven Osborne, City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO)

No-one conducts British music with more eloquence and flair than Edward Gardner, who tonight rediscovers two very different twentieth century masterpieces: Walton’s sparkling, neglected Second Symphony and – 100 years since Butterworth’s death on the Somme – the heartbreaking A Shropshire Lad.

First though, another treasure of British music, pianist and CBSO Artist in Residence Steven Osborne, brings all his poetry and power to Beethoven’s exuberant First Concerto.

Edward Gardner - Conductor
Steven Osborne - Piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Programme
Beethoven - Egmont: Overture, 8’
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1, 37’
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad , 11’
Walton - Symphony No. 2, 27’