A CONCERT of classical masterpieces from the Bournmouth Symphony Orchestra takes place at Plymouth Guildhall on Thursday, January 21.

The concert opens with Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin, a 20th-century view on the French Baroque tradition.

The piece was originally composed for solo piano and then beautifully orches-trated, showing the different colours of the Orchestra in a way only Ravel could.

The Orchestra is then joined by French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, equally at home in the world of early and classical music and consequently a perfect soloist for Haydn’s much-loved Cello Concerto, one of the favourite pieces in the cello repertoire.

In the second half of the concert, conductor Frank Zielhorst leads the BSO through Beethoven’s Symphony No.2, a life-affirming, joyful work despite the composer’s turmoil and struggle with the onset of deafness during the time of composition.