Sound the trumpet | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Perhaps the world’s most romantic birthday present, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll was written as a gift to his wife Cosima, and first performed by an ensemble of musicians on the staircase of the Wagner’s home on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on her birthday morning. Brahms’s Fourth Symphony begins with a sigh and ends with a tempest: guest conductor Lahav Shani will pour everything he has into a musical tragedy of Shakespearean power. In between, there’s a welcome return for a real favourite with Liverpool audiences – the brilliant young Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, bringing her trademark sparkle to Haydn’s playful concerto.