Mendelssohn's poetic brilliance brings Perahia's sparkling pianism to the fore and the towering baroque splendour of the fifth Brandenburg - with its thrilling, interweaving, contrapuntal lines - shows the Academy's virtuosity and agility to its best effect. A concert of lyrical masterpieces counterbalanced by Perahia's first essay with the Academy into the world of Beethoven's Symphony No. 4.
SCHUBERT Overture in C major 'In the Italian Style'
