I have a dreadful confession to make. For years now I have been championing the cause of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as not only a genius but also a God in the field of classical music.

But I was shocked to discover on Sunday afternoon I really quite liked a piece written by his arch rival and possible murderer, Antonio Salieri.

The piece in question was a concerto for flute and oboe sneaked in to the programme between two Mozart symphonies to showcase Mozart's contemporaries.

This isn't great music - the orchestral accompaniment is a tad dull - but, in the hands of Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra's flautist Christine Messiter and oboist Alun Darbyshire, it became a sparkling, colourful and cleverly twisting work full of melody.

Other soloists from the BPO took their place in a majestic reading of Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon.

But at the heart of this programme, of course, was Mozart, this year being the 250th anniversary of his birth.

His first symphony, rarely performed, was written in London when he was just eight years old, after he met Johann Christian Bach.

It is a simple three-movement piece and was given a stirring performance.

This concert's centrepiece was a reading of Mozart's majestic last symphony, the No 41, later named Jupiter, which sees him at the peak of his symphonic writing.

This complex, highly tuneful and colourful symphony was given a magnificent and stirring reading and the orchestra played its heart out to end yet another memorable concert.