Beethoven 7

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is always fresh and always welcome. Vigorous, muscular music, music of elation, surrounds a funeral march of the utmost sadness and profundity.

That profundity is heard also in Mozart’s introspective, tragic concerto. Yeol Eum Son illuminates the piece, her breathtaking agility twinned with the most thoughtful musicianship.

Rossini’s ebullient overture, meanwhile, precedes one of the funniest comic operas in the repertoire. It is pure musical laughter and a wonderful way to open the Bayleys Great Classics season.