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Adam Tomlinson presents a concert of music by Mozart, Berlioz and Ravel live from Sage Gateshead. Featuring the Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.

Ryan Wigglesworth: First Book of Inventions
Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te - Non temer, amato bene, K505
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat, K271 (Jeunehomme)

c. 8.30 pm Interval:
Adam Tomlinson introduces music by two baroque composers, Gluck and Couperin, who influenced Berlioz and Ravel.

c. 8.50 pm Part 2
Berlioz: Nuits d'茅t茅
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin

Sophie Bevan, soprano
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Ryan Wigglesworth, piano & conductor

When Berlioz encountered a set of poems by his friend Th茅ophile Gautier which told of love passionate, unrequited and lost, his reaction was typically intense: he immediately set the songs to music - first for soprano with piano, then with orchestra. In the colour, sensuousness and grace of 'Nuits d'茅t茅', Berlioz "sowed the seeds for the entire musical lyricism of the nineteenth century in the French language", according to one musicologist. Ryan Wigglesworth also includes Mozart's Jeunhomme Piano Concerto, Ravel's plangent memorial to lost friends and his own 'Inventions'.

Followed by highlights from last week's RNCM Festival of Brass at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.