The BPO gave up its usual Sunday afternoon slot to allow a new angle to be taken on the Mozart 2006 celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Instead of live music, there was a screening of the film In Search Of Mozart, by award-winning director Brighton-based Phil Grabsky and his Seventh Art production company.
It is a remarkable film covering the whole of the composer's life from his birth in Salzburg in 1756 to his death from rheumatic fever and kidney failure in Vienna in 1791.
There were insightful and invaluable contributions from, among others, singers Renee Fleming, Ian Bostridge and Gerald Finley, as well as conductors Rodger Norrington and Charles Mackerrals.
With Juliet Stevenson as narrator and Sam West as the voice of Mozart, this film must be the definitive biography of Mozart and is a spellbinding portrait of his musical genius.
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