Stephen Hough returns to the Royal Festival Hall on 12 November, joining the Philharmonia to perform Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1 under the baton of Finnish conductor Anna-Maria Helsing. The programme also includes Strum, an exuberant work for strings by New York composer Jessie Montgomery, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.4 Italian. You can watch the performance live at 19:30 on Ticket Co – click here to purchase tickets. The concert will also be available later on demand.

“[He] dazzled with his virtuosity but even more so with his musicality” – this was Backtrack​’s review of Hough’s recent performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 Emperor with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. From Wednesday 11 November (19:00) it is available online for 30 days – click here to buy tickets. Joshua Weilerstein conducts, and Bartók’s Divertimento for strings concludes the programme.