Music review: BBC SSO, City Halls, Glasgow
In the second of two concerts acting as dress rehearsals for this week’s coming tour to Salzburg by the BBC SSO, principal conductor Thomas Dausgard programmed a pair of powerful “B”s – Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 1 – enlisting for the Brahms the seasoned Russian septuagenarian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja.