Brilliant Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov makes his second appearance at this year’s International Festival, applying his powerful, poetic musicality to the elegant, Mozartian splendour of Beethoven’s energetic First Piano Concerto.

Harding closes the concert with Mahler’s intensely expressive Ninth Symphony. A profound journey into the meaning of life and the inevitability of death, by turns grotesque and achingly beautiful, the Symphony struggles with the deepest of questions in what is arguably the composer’s most moving work.