Budapest Festival Orchestra, Maria Joao Pires

Programme to include:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture, The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K.271
Interval
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No.1

Hear the orchestra perform with their musical director Iván Fischer and pianist Maria João Pires in Royal Festival Hall.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra, celebrated for its spontaneity and fiery intensity, are joined by pianist Maria João Pires and led by Iván Fischer, a conductor renowned for his originality and galvanising effect on stage.

The concert opens with Mozart's joyful, bubbling Overture to his opera The Magic Flute before Pires takes to the piano for the composer's delicate, delightful Piano Concerto No.9.

Brahms' Symphony No.1 takes the concert into more troubled waters. A Romantic symphony in full bloom that takes its inspiration from Beethoven's dramatic depths.