BBC Philharmonic Principal Guest Conductor, Ben Gernon, and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich join the orchestra in Hanley for an evening that begins with the ceremonial fizz and pomp of Mozart’s ‘Haffner’ Symphony and ends with Beethoven’s sunny and genial Fourth.
Nestled in-between: Saint-Saëns’s gloriously playful first Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Andante cantabile, which brought Tolstoy to tears.
