
Elgar’s Cello Concerto arrives with more baggage than most. Pablo Ferrández’s belated Proms debut treats that inheritance as a starting point in a performance both earthy and sonorous.

Cellist Pablo Ferrández’s epic rendition of Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto combined with Brahms’ joyous Symphony No. 4 made this the best LPO concert I’ve heard in a long time.