
Clare Hammond’s new recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and George Vass invites us into a world of invention, warmth, and wit brought into focus by a pianist whose hallmark is clarity without coldness.

A sprawling, sometimes unsettling, ecstatic sound-world that asks only for your attention — and gives everything in return. Not for decoding. Unless, of course, you want to.

A compelling Proms debut from pianist Nicholas McCarthy in a performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, marked by glassy lyricism and a revealing, if occasionally cautious, orchestral mix.