Work: Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor

Cellist Sol Gabetta founded the Solsberg Festival to make music with like-minded people in a historically significant space and arranges programmes by, and with, select musicians.

Hope can spin high-lying musical phrases with a sweetness and suspension that few of his contemporaries can match.

Rousing performances of Beethoven and Brahms from Karl-Heinz Steffens and the Philharmonia came either side of a polished, but slightly reserved, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.