Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra plays Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony

Under the baton of Graham Ross, Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra presents the first of two concerts (the second is on 8th February 2013). The programme, a characteristic blend of the well-loved and the unfamiliar, features pianist Peter Austin in Bartok's third Piano Concerto, composed as a gift for his wife and left unfinished at his death in 1945. The piece is the centre of a programme that opens with Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel Overture and completed by Mendelssohn's rarely heard and uplifting Reformation Symphony.