"Sometimes music has a temperature, a smell or a colour," conductor Kazuki Yamada once explained in an interview. He is now one of the greats in his field - and a long, successful collaboration connects him in particular with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Together with the young pianist Alice Sara Ott, Yamada shows the music in the cupola hall in just about every imaginable temperature and color shade. With Beethoven's symphonic third piano concerto, the program features a work that in 1803 opened the door to a new musical age with panache. A similar turning point marked the premiere of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in 1830.