Proms Across the UK: Mozart and Mendelssohn

R3's Proms Marathon continues with Petroc Trelawny, and another chance to hear the Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directing the Royal Northern Sinfonia in a programme of works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Mozart and a 14-year-old Mendelssohn, at The Fire Station in Sunderland, on 25th July.

They were joined by pianist Christian Ihle Hadland for Mendelssohn's rarely heard double concerto.

Polish violinist Maria Włoszczowska directed 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.

Grażyna Bacewicz: Divertimento
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 39

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