Work: Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major, Op.6

Mario Venzago conducts a rare chance to hear Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral setting of Walt Whitman, Toward the Unknown Region. 

In her final appearance as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor, Anna Ratikina leads a fine programme of Prokofiev, Paganini and Ellen Reid.

Bell didn’t try to impress with speed nor call attention to his virtuosity; expression and color were paramount with notes sounding clearly.