Juraj Valcuha conductor
Ingrid Fliter piano

Rossini Overture, ‘William Tell’
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23, K488
Brahms Symphony No. 2

A trio of uplifting, joyous works forms this evening’s concert. Rossini’s famously exciting ‘William Tell’ Overture leads perfectly into Mozart’s sparkling piano concerto featuring Ingrid Fliter making her 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 dramaticism before ending with a finale that, in the words of musicologist Reinhold Brinkmann, “hardly stops to think”.

6.15pm Free pre-concert talk
Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra in conversation with Neil Roberts

“Fliter is very much her own person, with essential sparks of individual imagination that show a fertile mind as well as a phenomenal technique at work” Daily Telegraph