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Prom 49: Haitink reveals Brahms' softer side

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 20 August 2011
Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major, Op.83
Brahms, Symphony no. 4 in E minor, Op.98
Emanuel Ax, Piano
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Bernard Haitink, Conductor
Chamber Orchestra of Europe brings all-Brahms evening to Philadelphia
****1
Beauty from Iestyn Davies, energy from Robin Ticciati in Gstaad
***11
Robin Ticciati shuffles incidental music with the COE
****1
Jansen dazzles Antwerp in fine Prokofiev with Pappano and the COE
****1
Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Beethoven cycle concludes
*****
Nézet-Séguin and the COE bring Beethoven to Baden-Baden
*****
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