Review by Danny Gaisin
Brott Festival’s Jacqui Muir, in welcoming the BPAC audience asked that ‘conducting’ between movements be curtailed…she corrected this to applause which can be distracting. However, I hope she didn’t really want to restrict those of us familiar enough with the scheduled works from slightly tapping out the tempi or even an occasional theme hum. Tonight it was Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony and his fifth piano concerto; two genuine favorites of this scribe.