Charlotte Smith Editor
nterviewing Patricia Kopatchinskaja about the folk-infused repertoire on her Chamber Award winning album this month put me in the mood for . The composer’s Viola Concerto is, of course, wonderful – but it’s the Second Violin Concerto, with its, that stops me in my tracks every time. My favourite recording still has to be James Ehnes’s rendition with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda – warm and human, yet somehow broken.
