Grieg Piano Concerto and the Northern Lights at St Mary le Strand

A concert of Romantic orchestral works by Grieg and Elgar, closing with Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, performed by the Piccadilly Sinfonietta at St Mary le Strand, a baroque church on the Strand in central London.

The programme brings together Romantic and early modern pieces. Two movements from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt suite, "Morning" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King", are followed by "Nimrod", the ninth of Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, first performed in 1899. The evening ends with Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, a Norwegian composer's work built on bold rhythms and broad melodic lines.

The orchestra is the Piccadilly Sinfonietta, and Warren Mailley-Smith is also named among the artists taking part. The programme moves from the dramatic contrasts of Grieg's orchestral writing to the more reflective tone of Elgar's variation, giving the concert a clear arc from lyrical passages to the concerto's virtuosic solo writing.

St Mary Le Strand is a baroque church on the Strand, close to the heart of central London. The concert is staged in candlelight, and a light show created for the performance, inspired by the northern lights, is presented alongside the music.