Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Stephen Prutsman 2016

Tonight we celebrate instrumental masters: Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. There will be energy and passion in the tent, opening with the final movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony—an Allegro with great Brio.

Then brilliant pianist Stephen Prutsman plays Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto, a work immediately familiar and joyful, “turning the concert stage into a platform for the emotions…”

And to send you into the fog humming and singing, Tchaikovsky’s combustible Fifth Symphony, so uplifting and so fiery that during the Second World War it was repeatedly performed by the Leningrad Symphony Radio Orchestra within earshot of bombs falling on the city.