Work: Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major, Op.15

Stylish Beethoven from Benjamin Grosvenor and dramatic Ustvolskaya from Yuriy Yurchuk, but Petrenko and the RPO’s blistering Shostakovich steals the show.

A traditional overture–concerto–symphony programme at Klosters Music proves anything but stale in dramatic performances by the Munich Chamber Orchestra. 

Ryan Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales give an extraordinary, terrifying account of Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony, preceded by a Classical-Romantic tussle in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto.