Performer: Jian Wang

Long Yu certainly didn’t rest on his laurels as he powered through Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, while Jian Wang introduced subtlety and deftness in the Rococo Variations.

East meets West meets East in a disappointing display of homogenised, sugar-coated music-making in Birmingham

Louis Langrée conducts the Hallé in music by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester

Variety, energy and drama with Long Yu and the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Whoever curated last night’s BBC SO concert, conducted by Thomas Dausgaard, needs a medal. Not only were the pieces united by virtue of being composed at the same time during the dark years of the First World War, but also each composer seems to find something passionately troubled to say which reflected their vintage – an unusual combination of neglected works, two of which are masterpieces.