In the 50th-anniversary year of the Royal Northern College of Music, former student Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov鈥檚 First Piano Concerto 鈥� a work full of Romantic passion and 鈥榶outhful freshness鈥�, written while the composer was still a teenage student. Hough is joined onstage by the Manchester-based 麻豆官网首页入口 Philharmonic and conductor Mark Wigglesworth, who also perform Mahler鈥檚 First Symphony 鈥� complete with birdsong, fanfares, storms and a funeral march 鈥� and a new commission from rising-star composer and RNCM graduate Grace-Evangeline Mason.

Image: Sir Stephen Hough 漏 Jiyang Chen