Mozart’s Strassburg with Yury Revich

International violin star Yury Revich returns to Firebird with a spectacular violin concerto on 28 April…

Yury Revich needs almost no introduction to Firebird fans having performed each season with Firebird since 2019.. This internationally-acclaimed star violinist is a winner of both ECHO Classic and International Classical Music Awards and enjoys a busy international schedule of concerts and concertos across the globe.

Why is it called the Strassburg Concerto?

This is said to be because of a local Strasburger dance theme which features in the third movement. Mozart referred to this in a letter the 19-year-old composer wrote to his father Leopold in 1775.

What else is in the concert?

Drama and capricious virtuosity follow in Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capricioso for Solo Violin and Orchestra. In the second half we hear Beethoven’s mighty Eroica Symphony, sometimes considered to be the first romantic symphony and filled with rousing melodies.

Mozart’s Strassburg

St George’s Hanover Square | Tuesday 28 April 2026, 7.30pm
Conductor Michael Thrift | Violin Yury Revich

Mozart Violin Concerto no. 3 in G, K. 216 (‘Strassburg‘)
Saint-SaënsIntroduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
Beethoven Symphony no. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 (‘Eroica‘)

Credits: photos of Yury Revich by Ursula Vavrik