From torment to triumph in two epic masterpieces.

You are invited to a concert of breathtaking orchestral pieces. When music is as beautiful as this, it’s impossible to believe the composers struggled to write it. Brahms sweated over every bar of his gorgeous Violin Concerto, but you would never guess on hearing it. Soloist Ning Feng will sweep you along in its soaring melodies and Hungarian dances. Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony was such a disaster at its premiere that it took three years of psychotherapy for the composer to recover. But this masterly work will hold you in its powerful grasp from beginning to end. The CBSO is led here by the brilliant Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky.