
Guy Johnston on Britten, the Proms, and neuroscience

We came for Schubert. What we got was something rarer.

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius’s Second Symphony — with Britten’s Cello Symphony and a UK premiere from Mark-Anthony Turnage.

A first encounter with Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op.1 No.1 at London’s newest recital hall, the Bechstein Hall in London’s Wigmore Street.