Johan Dalene plays Sibelius

Icy vistas and storm-tossed melodies with Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Johan Dalene's take on Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

Johannes Brahms spent the best years of his youth writing his First Symphony: an epic emotional autobiography that begins with the pounding of a heart in torment and ends with a hymn of triumph – and a tune you’ll never forget. But then, tonight’s concert is all about the Romantic imagination, whether the storm-tossed melodies of Mendelssohn’s Scottish seascape, or the icy vistas and fiery heart of Sibelius’s only violin concerto. Edward Gardner brings all his sense of drama, and violinist Johan Dalene – well, critics have said that he ‘makes his Stradivarius sing’, and you’re about to hear why.