Oksana Lyniv conducts Copenhagen Phil with Illia Ovcharenko on piano

Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv returns to the podium to lead Copenhagen Phil, with fellow Ukrainian Illia Ovcharenko as piano soloist. The programme pairs Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute and Symphony No. 41, the Jupiter, with Franz Xaver Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 2 from 1818.

Franz Xaver was the youngest son of Wolfgang Amadeus and lived in the shadow of his famous father, yet his concerto shows a personal, sensitive voice rooted in Viennese classicism and looking towards early Romanticism. The evening is a rare chance to hear him alongside the father's late symphony, which the concert treats as the peak of his symphonic mastery. Lyniv has said the music is close to her heart, as Franz Xaver grew up in Denmark but wrote much of his work in Lviv, in today's Ukraine.