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Tonight, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, led by its artistic director and violinist Sergej Krylov, shares the stage with pianist Barry Douglas. Maestro Krylov conducts many orchestras in Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Croatia, and elsewhere. Today the audience will be offered his interpretation of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major – even the composer, who rarely spoke about his music, said that this was one of his best works.

Already a favourite of our audience, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Douglas boasts extensive international career, performing with the Berlin and Israel philharmonic orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the symphony orchestras of France, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, and Singapore, as well as London’s foremost ensembles. In 1986, the pianist won the gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Admired for his outstanding interpretations of classical and romantic repertoire, the maestro will perform Beethoven’s Fourth concerto for piano and orchestra in G major this evening – one of the composer’s most profound compositions, which seems to combine the lucidity and virtuosity characteristic of two other Viennese classics, Mozart and Haydn, with a lyrical romantic aesthetic, imbuing the work with philosophical depth.