An evening spent in the key of C minor, with works by two towering giants of music history bookending one another by a lesser-known composer who is nevertheless particularly worthy of discovery: that would be a fair overview of this programme conducted by the Kossuth Prize-winning musician András Keller. Because accompanying these ever-popular C-minor compositions by Bach and Brahms will be a cello concerto in the same key by the 20th-century composer Mieczysław (Moisei) Weinberg, who was born in Warsaw but died in Moscow. The latter piece, here being interpreted by the Italian cellist – also noted for his impressive skills in chamber configurations – Mario Brunello, can be read as a poignantly beautiful personal testimony from the hell of Stalinism by a composer whose Jewishness placed him in great danger. The Brahms symphony that comprises the second half of the concert likewise bears the hallmarks of its creator’s personality. It was in part through an easily recognisable quotation from the Ode to Joy that the German master, who had freed his creative powers from the influence of Beethoven’s oeuvre only through many years of hard work, revealed a new and loftier level of artistic consciousness.