Journey into the world’s waterways with Jeremy Wade, before an evening of music inspired by water and the Earth.
Tchaikovsky wrote his Violin Concerto on holiday by Lake Geneva with the young student he hoped would premiere it, and poured equal parts emotion and virtuosity into his fiercely difficult and beautiful score.
Zvonimir Hačko conducts the period-instrument Hanover Band in Beethoven's iconic and much-loved Ninth Symphony, preceded by Schumann's Piano Concerto with the virtuosic pianist Danny Driver. Beethoven's thrilling Egmont Overture opens the concert.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but music can paint pictures that haven’t even been imagined.
Explore the delicate, interconnected systems that sustain life on Earth.
From blissful countryside to brooding volcanoes, tonight is all about nature. And gorgeous melodies.