Every year, the Berliner Philharmoniker marks Europe Day with a special concert performed at a site of deep musical history and this year's Europakonzert takes place at Esterházy Palace, where Joseph Haydn lived and worked for over four decades. It's a fitting backdrop for a program built around the idea of music looking backward: composers borrowing from, reimagining, and paying tribute to the styles that came before them.

The concert opens with Haydn himself, followed by his most famous pupil a young Beethoven, still firmly rooted in the Classical tradition of his Second Symphony before the revolutionary works that would follow. Gautier Capuçon joins the orchestra for Tchaikovsky's elegant Rococo Variations, a 19th-century composer's affectionate nod to Mozart's world, and Stravinsky's Pulcinella rounds out the evening by reaching even further back, reinventing Baroque material through a thoroughly modern lens. Kirill Petrenko conducts. No prior classical music experience needed just curiosity about how the past echoes through great music.

This free event is hosted by UO Libraries and is open to the UO community.