Proms Across the UK: Mozart and Mendelssohn

Live at the BBC Proms: Royal Northern Sinfonia with director Maria Włoszczowska and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland perform Bacewicz, Mendelssohn and Mozart.

Presented by Linton Stephens, live from The Fire Station, Sunderland

Grażyna Bacewicz: Divertimento
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings

c.8.20pm
Interval: Poets Sarah Jackson and Jake Morris-Campbell talk a walk around the centre of Sunderland to explore the changing landscape of the city

c.8.50pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39

Maria Włoszczowska (director/violin)
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Royal Northern Sinfonia

Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directs the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of musical innovations and provocations. Grażyna Bacewicz turns an 18th-century entertainment into a witty, piquant and often densely beautiful miniature. The 14-year-old Mendelssohn had no model for his unusual Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings but combined his two soloists with ingenious and eloquent results. At the other end of his career, Mozart took the symphony to new heights in his final three efforts in the genre, beginning with the vivacious Symphony No. 39, whose brilliance veers on the cusp of darkness.