AND MUSIC TO YOUR EARS…

You tell us what you’ve been enjoying on disc and in the concert hall

Bob Foale Essex

After a horrendous week at work, it was good to be able to finally relax at Wigmore Hall. On stage was the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under the baton of Oliver Knussen, with a programme of works by Helen Grime, Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell Davies. Definite highlight? The world première of Helen Grime’s Piano Concerto, written for and performed by her husband Huw Watkins. I’m looking forward to this appearing on disc, so that I can study this work further.

Don Dugal Pittsburgh, US

Being familiar with most of the standard orchestral repertoire, I was delighted to discover the fine Philharmonia Orchestra recording of Clementi’s Symphony No. 1. Having mistakenly positioned this composer to an earlier period, I was not prepared for the robust orchestration of this work, which suggested that of a lost Beethoven Symphony.

Nils Erik Berntzen Hokksund, Norway

Early in March, the brilliant Leif Ove Andsnes (right) played and conducted Mozart’s

Piano Concertos Nos 20 & 22 in Oslo University’s intimate and beautiful Music Hall, a venue whose walls are decorated by Edvard Munch paintings. The audience gave both the artist and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra enthusiastic ovations on this far too rare occasion.

George Carlson

Passion, performed by Wells Cathedral