Ready for an emotional roller-coaster ride? Take Rachmaninov’s heart-wrenching Piano Concerto No. 2, probably the most popular piano concerto in history, pair it with Prokofiev’s Fifth symphony, a powerful hymn to freedom composed during the Second World War, and fasten your seatbelt.

Which bit of this concert will you be humming on the way home? The gorgeous melody of Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (the really lush part is Variation 18, if you want to add it to your playlist right now)? Or the threatening march of the Montagues and the Capulets from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet?

Sibelius’s violin concerto is a pinnacle in the repertoire of any violinist. Hauntingly beautiful melodies – check. Devilishly difficult passages – check. Ethereal high notes – check. Come and hear it in the hands of exceptional young violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Then let yourself be swept up in the emotion and grandeur of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony.

Edward Elgar, quintessential English composer, rubs shoulders with two American greats: Samuel Barber (ever wondered what else he wrote apart from the Adagio for Strings?) and Erich Korngold. An Oscar-winning film composer in the 1930s and 40s, Korngold worked his favourite melodies from his films into a ravishing Violin Concerto.

25 brass players raise the roof in Janáček’s thrilling Sinfonietta. But first it’s time for something much more recent. George Benjamin conducts his own Dream of the Song, vivid settings of Andalusian poetry, alongside music by his teacher Olivier Messiaen and his friend Oliver Knussen.