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The concert opened with BBC newsreader Julia Somerville, summarising news from the year 1915 at an old-fashioned broadcasting desk complete with microphone. It was informative, and set the scene for this recital, one in a series of ‘time capsule’ concerts, solely featuring music composed in 1915 – including two of Debussy’s last chamber pieces.

Die Klaviervirtuosin und der junge finnische Dirigentin werden den hohen Erwartungen des Abends leider nicht gerecht.