Performer: James Ehnes

Chamber music values and luxury casting with world-class string players enriched this hefty program of an elegiac Bach sonata and valedictory works by Bartók and Brahms.

****1

Manfred Honeck and the DSO dazzle Berlin's Philharmonie

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 08 May

Manfred Honeck builds a magnificent monument of sound conducting the DSO Berlin in Mahler's Fifth Symphony, the highlight of the evening, preceded by violinist James Ehnes who brilliantly recreates Mozart's Third Concerto.

*****

Disappointing Walton and Elgar from John Wilson and the Philharmonia

David Truslove, 10 Feb

Sounding under-rehearsed and unloved, these performances of two great works made for a frustrating evening that could have been so much more inspiring.

**111

The CBSO mesmerises in Miller but makes a mess of Beethoven

Simon Cummings, 06 Oct

Finnegan Downie Dear oversees a decidedly conflicted concert of works by Beethoven, Britten and Cassandra Miller that veered between ravishing beauty and unsynchronised sloppiness.

***11

Rare Respighi shines in Seattle Chamber Music Society online stream

Erica Miner, 20 Jul

After solo Bach, Alessio Bax joins string players for the Italian's Brahmsian Piano Quintet in F minor.

****1

Seattle Chamber Music Society's Summer Festival opens with bravado

Erica Miner, 17 Jul

All three works were spirited, full of bravura and performed with panache and undisputed virtuosity.

****1