The LSO’s second concert of the season offered an eclectic programme of one of the great romantic piano concerti, sandwiched between works by two of the finest English composers of the last century.

Antonio Pappano delivered a masterclass in dynamic control with VW’s final symphony, leaving the perennially popular Elgar cello concerto that followed feeling almost toothless Cymbal crashes start ...

Of the five composers featured, four are still alive and, as Rattle had maintained in an interview, “Elgar is so lively he’s basically a living composer”. Most have a connection to the LSO or to ...

Only the frostiest of snowmen could have failed to respond to so instinctive and thrilling a performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius as this by the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis.