Pianists Tessa Uys and Ben Schoeman return to Farnham on November 17 to perform the piano four hands transcriptions of Beethoven's famous Symphonies 5 and 6.

This free event has been organised by TBS Concerts, and starts at 3pm in the Spire Church. There will be a retiring collection.

The transcriptions of these famous symphonies were composed by Polish pianist Franz Xaver Scharwenka.

Tessa Uys has a very personal connection with the music, as her concert pianist mother Helga Bassel was from Berlin, the city where Scharwenka lived.

In the 1930s, along with thousands of Jews, she fled the city seeking refuge in Cape Town, where her daughter Tessa was born.

By a stroke of good fortune, Helga had been able to take not only her beloved Blüthner piano with her but also her collection of piano music, including the Scharwenka transcriptions, which were eventually bequeathed to Tessa.

In 2004 the piano was returned to the Blüthner factory in Leipzig for restoration, and finally gifted to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

This will be the third time that Tessa and Ben have played for TBS Concerts this year, and their previous performances received standing ovations.

For more details visit www.tilbach.org.uk