Hilary Hahn plays Mozart

The music

R Schumann Julius Caesar Overture (8’) Listen
Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, K219 (Turkish) (31’) Listen
Brahms Symphony No. 1 (45’) Listen

The performers

• Karina Canellakis conductor*
• Hilary Hahn violin

Witness a true superstar among violinists.

They called it ‘Beethoven’s Tenth’, but when Brahms wrote his First Symphony he was very much his own man, and this mighty musical struggle is filled with a profound poetry and warmth. It’s ideal for LPO Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis: critics have praised her ‘explosive chemistry’ with the LPO, and she’ll bring the same electricity to a Shakespearean overture by Brahms’s mentor Robert Schumann, and the teenage Mozart’s delightfully playful violin concerto. Hilary Hahn takes the part that Mozart wrote for himself; expect elegance as well as mischief from a true superstar among violinists.

*Karina Canellakis’s position with the LPO is generously supported by Richard Buxton.