This concert promises a programme that is not in the least bit conventional as German violinist Christian Tetzlaff returns to András Keller’s ensemble to once again astonish everyone with his playing. This time, they will collaborate on Beethoven's Violin Concerto, one of the most revered pieces in the genre for any instrument, which will be bookended by two modern orchestral transcriptions of pieces by Bach. Contrapunctus XIX, from The Art of The Fugue, was given a new form at the turn of the millennium by the boldly experimental Luciano Berio, in memory of the conductor-composer Giuseppe Sinopoli, who died in 2001. By then in his twilight years, Igor Stravinsky took on arranging the preludes and fugues from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier for orchestra in 1969. We will then hear the Russian composer’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring. Representing the earlier part of his career, it poses an imposing test of the abilities of both the conductor and the orchestra. After all, it was no less of an authority than the true maestro Herbert von Karajan who declared that conductors should only tackle this piece on stage when they are at the heights of the powers.