If you like your classical music fiery and passionate then the place to have been on Sunday was the Dome Concert Hall.

The two major works were Grieg's Piano Concerto in A-Minor and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Both pieces were given absolutely stunning performances in a concert which certainly raised one's pulse and made me want to leap up and dance about.

Freddy Kempf, a former BBC Musician of the Year winner, was the soloist in the Grieg and so strongly did he play I feared for the future health of the Steinway piano.

This was a powerful, sustained, passionate and sometimes violent reading of the work, an old war-horse which always throws up something new.

Dressed in a flowing black coat, black trousers and rollneck sweater, this could have been a Scandinavian troll out to freeze men's blood.

The conductor for this concert was the latest member of the Wallfisch musical dynasty, Benjamin, who is also a noted composer. He is only a young man but can pull out all the stops and didn't pull any punches in Beethoven's Symphony no 7.

This symphony, described by Richard Wagner as "the apotheosis of the dance" was fiery, loud, fast and totally breathtaking. For the first time I felt this work outshone Beethoven's great masterpiece, the choral symphony.