A concert given in the Barbican Hall on Saturday night. HK Gruber's Aerial, written for the dazzling trumpet playing of Hakan Hardenberger , begins with a cowhorn and continues "in an imaginary landscape beneath the Northern Lights." This work is framed by two symphonies: one of Haydn's London symphonies and Shostakovich's last, completed in 1971. Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leonard Slatkin
Haydn Symphony No 99 in E flat HK Gruber Aerial
Shostakovich Symphony No 15