Okko Kamu: conductor; Steven Osborne: piano

Prokofiev: Symphony No.1 in D major, Op.25 'Classical'; Mozart: Piano Concerto in B flat major, K.595; Haydn: Symphony No.92 in G 'Oxford'

The seventeen-year-old Prokofiev called his first symphony ‘classical’ partly in the hope that it would become a ‘classic’. The rest is history –not many pieces are more immediately likeable or more regularly performed worldwide. Okko Kamu pairs it here with one of the symphonies that inspired it (Haydn was Prokofiev’s idol) and Mozart’s last, great piano concerto.

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© Photo: Ben Ealovega