Light! by Brahms, Auerbach, Lera, Mozart, Ab (2024/2024), Dirigat François Leleux, Sibeliustalo (Sibelius Hall), Ankkuri, Finnland

A concert like an unprecedented light show! Johannes Brahms’s Second Symphony, his most beloved, radiates such bright sunshine that only Mozart’s Oboe Concerto can match it. Lera Auerbach’s Eterniday is about something eternal but fragile: ‘The idea of a young Mozart was in my mind and became part of my work, perhaps as the guardian angel of Eterniday’, the composer explains. François Leleux, perhaps the most celebrated oboist of our time, plays the dual role of conductor and soloist.