This one opens with a bang, with Strauss’s vivid portrayal of serial seducer Don Juan. A Mozart Piano Concerto brings us back into more refined company. Then it’s time to sit back and enjoy Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony, full of dancing melodies.

The Philharmonia turns 75 this year, and we’re celebrating with a concert showing off our horn players past and present. Britten’s eerily beautiful Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings sets poems evoking evening, and Mark-Anthony Turnage has written us a horn concerto inspired by poems about dawn.

75 years ago the Philharmonia Orchestra was born – and so were the three pieces in tonight’s programme, responses to the violence of war by Vaughan Williams, Stravinsky and Strauss. Our fantastic Principal Oboe Tom Blomfield, just 24 years old, is the soloist in Strauss’s nostalgic Oboe Concerto.

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.