A trio of uplifting, joyous works forms this afternoon’s concert conducted by Juraj Valcuha. Rossini's much-loved and furiously paced overture to his opera William Tell leads perfectly into Mozart’s sparkling piano concerto featuring the outstanding Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter making her London début with the Philharmonia. Concluding the programme, Brahms’s Second Symphony was nicknamed the Pastoral, mirroring Beethoven’s famous work of the same name, and moves from a pastoral idyll through moments of Brahms’s typical drama before ending with a finale that, in the words of musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann, 'hardly stops to think'.
More concerts at Royal Festival Hall:
Gatti conducts in London
May 17 2012, 19:30 - Royal Festival Hall
Daniele Gatti conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and Wagner's Prelude to Act III and Good Friday Music from Parsifal
Valčuha conducts in London
May 19 2012, 19:30 - Royal Festival Hall
Juraj Valčuha conducts Dvořák's Cello Concerto performed by Alisa Weilerstein alongside Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and the Overture from Mozart's Don Giovanni








