Beethoven in an elegant mood and Haydn’s celebratory ‘Nelson’ Mass.

Immerse yourself in two journeys of discovery and transformation, led by conductor Omer Meir Wellber. You can practically hear Beethoven’s style evolving in his third piano concerto: from graceful opening, to soulful middle movement, to dark and stormy finale. Soloist Sir Stephen Hough brings his inimitable creative spirit to the party, with his arrangement of the second movement. Haydn wrote his Mass in a state of high anxiety: his homeland of Austria was increasingly alarmed by the threat of Napoleon’s army. You can hear it all in the turbulent opening movement. By the time of the premiere Nelson had defeated the French Emperor – the Mass’s triumphant conclusion became forever linked to Nelson’s.