Beethoven’s Second

Young hearts run free. Mozart was still a teenager when he wrote his Fifth Violin Concerto, but genius is genius and the result is the sparkiest, quirkiest and most stylish showpiece ever written for a world-class violinist. Maria Włoszczowska brings it to life today – a sparkling centrepiece to a concert that begins with Ravel’s bittersweet homage to a vanished world, and ends with Beethoven in full, dazzling flight. His youthful Second Symphony is daring, dashing, and packed with musical humour – perfect, in other words, for conductor Erina Yashima and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.