Artiste: Huw Watkins

In a concert of three violin sonatas, a disappointing Debussy precedes an interesting piece by Watkins and well-performed Beethoven.

Unjustly neglected works by Boulanger, Beach, and Clarke shine despite frustratingly inconsistent playing. 

Oliver Knussen and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group excel in a cunningly linked group of works from the old (mid 1980s) to the brand new.

Welsh composer Huw Watkins reflects on the thinking that led to his opera In the Locked Room, created in partnership with librettist David Harsent.