Admired for her peerless keyboard prowess as well as her profound musical insights, South Korean Yeol Eum Son has quickly taken a rightful place among the world’s most respected pianists. Following exquisite Mozart in 2022, she returns to the SCO with something far stormier and more dramatic: Beethoven’s powerful Third Piano Concerto. Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev opens with Brahms’ gloriously lyrical tribute to Haydn, and the concert comes to a climax with the choral grandeur of Haydn’s own ‘Nelson’ Mass. Written during a time of war, the piece moves from menacing drama to triumphant victory in what’s generally considered the composer’s most expressive music. BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 3 HAYDN Nelson Mass in D minor Maxim Emelyanychev: Conductor Yeol Eum Son: Piano Anna Dennis: Soprano Katie Bray: Mezzo Soprano Anthony Gregory: Tenor Neal Davies: Bass Baritone SCO Chorus Gregory Batsleer: Chorus Director