First Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ‘Haffner Symphony’, tingling with the most cheerful festive mood, then Ludwig van Beethoven's enormous Third Symphony, the ‘Eroica’: this is how breathtakingly far the arc of so-called classical music spanned in just 20 years. Beethoven was first fascinated by Napoleon, then repelled by him. His ‘Eroica’, or ‘heroic symphony’, boldly exploded the dimensions of the genre. The work refers to the myth of Prometheus, who brought fire to mankind - an element as ambivalent as Napoleon himself, this liberator and oppressor. Blazing passions reign when Julian Rachlin interprets these two rousing works with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. And they also blossom in their very own way in Felix Mendelssohn's enchanting violin concerto, in which Janine Jansen shines as the soloist: lofty pathos à la Beethoven, united with Mozart's exuberant lust for music-making - a brilliant combination.