Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra get music lovers in the mood for Valentine's Day

A spokesperson said: “On Sunday the BPO will be performing a concert of unashamedly romantic music to get everyone in the mood for Valentine’s Day, and we are delighted to welcome Howard Shelley back to Brighton as both conductor and pianist.

“Regular audience members will recall that on his last visit to the Dome with the Brighton Phil two years ago, performing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.2, he created quite a stir by directing the orchestra from the piano using a digital score on an iPad with a Bluetooth foot pedal.

“This time he opens proceedings with Schubert’s enchanting ‘Unfinished’ Symphony No.8. Schubert started composing it in 1822 but put it aside to concentrate on other works, leaving it unfinished at his death six years later. We are left with two remarkable movements that herald the dawn of the Romantic symphony.

“Mendelssohn wrote his First Piano Concerto aged just 21 on a trip to Italy (at the same time as comp