COMPOSERS: Schumann,Sibelius
LABELS: Ideale Audience
WORKS: Sibelius: Violin Concerto etc; Schumann: Symphony No. 2
PERFORMER: Valeriy Sokolov (violin); COE/Ashkenazy
CATALOGUE NO: 3078748
Why the dreary black background to this classy, live-wire concert in Paris’s Cité de la Musique? Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is coupled with his magical Rakastava for strings. Malcolm Hayes