The new album that the pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has released together with the Saint Martin-in-the-fields Academy has been praised in the specialized media for the pianist's simplicity when it comes to her stylistic approach to the great classical music composer's concert opus, and for the clarity of expression which we can observe in every minute of the recordings - it's about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 and No. 23. You can listen to the second one in a live transmission from Barbican Hall, London on Monday, December 9th, on Radio România Muzical. The same young pianist will perform alongside the ensemble from the English capital in a romantic classical concert.

The evening opens with the Don Giovanni Overture, an opus full of drama and theatricality, in which English musicians will evoke the atmosphere of one of Mozart's most loved titles dedicated to the stage - from Søren Kierkegaard to Gustave Flaubert, this opera won the admiration and appreciation of many thinkers. After this Op. comes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Concerto No. 23 K488 in A major for piano and orchestra, an optimistic and serene work, perhaps meant to contrast with the first score of the evening. Khatia Buniatishvili, whom we usually associate more with romantic and modern pages, for example with Rachmaninoff, Liszt or Schubert works, will perform as a soloist with Saint Martin-in-the-fields Academy - and if the record she released with the ensemble a few weeks ago can be taken as a point of reference, we can expect a flawless performance of an opus very dear to the music lovers who are fond of Mozart.

After half time, the London musicians will perform Felix Mendelssohn's the Hebrides Overture, a piece that the German composer had started writing during a trip to the British Isles - more precisely on Fingal's Cave, a sea cave located on the Inner Hebrides, on Staffa Island, in the north-west of Scotland. According to some sources, the composer started the sketches right after seeing the island for the very first time. It is considered an early symphonic poem by some, but something more interesting - and more important for the contextualization of the performance we're proposing - is the fact that Johannes Brahms had claimed that "I'd give everything I have written, just to have composed something like the Hebrides Overture." And if this Mendelssohnian page is associated with a geological formation from the north of the British Isles, the concert will closewith a page that bears the name of the English capital - Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 104 in D major. Being the last work that the Austrian composer dedicated to the symphonic genre, it had its premiere in 1795 and it was an immediate success - a fact that made Haydn note in his diary: "The entire company was glad and so was I. I made 4000 guldens tonight: a thing like that can only happen in England."

We'll find out about other musical successes that can happen in England on Monday, December 9th at 21:30 during a live transmission from London on Radio România Muzical.