Live, Video: Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance reviews | English | Cello Concerto no. 7 in G major, G 480

In a world of Sergey Malovs the violoncello da spalla could have been a contender.

One of the pleasures of live music-making is seeing as well as hearing: one gets a sense of a performance as a multi-layered communicative act rather than solely as a sequence of beautiful sounds. In Saturday evening’s ACO concert with the extraordinary cellist Giovanni Sollima as soloist, the visual dimension contributed more than usual to the effect of the whole.