The esteemed position that surnames starting with the letter B occupy in the annals of music history is well known, and at this concert, these include not only those of the composers, but also of the conductor and the soloist. Of course, while simply an interesting coincidence, this bit of fun with alliteration also makes for a truly impressive programme. One of Bach’s most wonderful organ works, the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is known in countless arrangements, several of them orchestral transcriptions, of which tonight we will hear Ottorino Respighi’s masterfully scored version. A piano concerto by a composer in his twenties played by a soloist in his twenties: this is how the concert continues, as Beethoven was not yet 25 years old when he presented to the Vienna audience his highly ambitious B-flat major effort in the genre, which on this occasion will be played by Mihály Berecz, one of the young favourites of the Concerto Budapest audience. The concert, which is not Kristóf Baráti’s first visit to the conductor’s podium, concludes with what the 19th-century Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick praised as the “most perfect Brahms symphony”: the third, in F major.