Performer: Simone Lamsma

The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM), conductor Rafael Payare, and violin soloist Simone Lamsma joined forces in a program that featured seminal works by two musical titans who settled in the United States after fleeing Europe in the mid-twentieth century.

In a programme very much rooted in the spirit dance, Britten’s Violin Concerto shines through in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall. 

 After a delightful opener by Suk, Simone Lamsma wows in stunning Sibelius with the RLPO before Rachmaninov's ill-fated, dramatic First Symphony completes the programme.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor brings a Technicolour experience to an evening of Bizet, Brahms, Debussy and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Jessie Montgomery's 2016 Records from a Vanishing City enthralls, Barber’s Violin Concerto is exquisite; Schumann's Rhenish disappoints.

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is reunited with its former Chief Conductor for an all-Russian evening in Cheltenham Town Hall as the festival opens its 77th season.