Performer: Beatrice Rana

The LPO gave us a tantalising reminder of summer before plunging us into the icy chill of Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams. 

Sir Andrew Davis led the BBC SO in a recreation of Sir Malcolm Sargent's 500th Prom, a lengthy programme that failed to inspire.

A few days before, the local newspaper rather hyped this concert - with good reason, as it turns out.

An all-Schumann chamber music concert doesn’t come around that often even at the Wigmore Hall, so I was delighted that the Modigliani Quartet presented a programme of his major chamber works with pianist Beatrice Rana.

Conductor and wunderkind Yannick Nézet-Séguin returned home to Montreal to lauch the 33rd season of L’Orchestre Métropolitain with a concert dedicated to compositions written or created a century ago in 1913.