Affection does, though, take its time, and there was some relief in finding the four movements of Mr. Harrison's concerto getting progressively shorter.
Where else will we get to hear the music of Johann Adolf Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini and the near-infant Mozart as offered at Tully today at 5 p.m.? On Monday, Mozart's early yet grand and elaborate E-flat Concerto gets the fortepiano treatment with JOS VAN IMMERSEEL as the Freiburg's soloist.
As a student played a Mozart concerto, he got up from the desk, sat at a second piano, and added chords quietly from time to time, to enunciate a higher rhythm of events.
One of the most intriguing of those neglected scores is the Piano Concerto – easily his most problematic concerto – which gets a rare British airing from the CBSO this week, with Stephen Hough as the soloist and Andris Nelsons conducting.
Various venues, York, to 16 July Three quarters of a century after he composed them, the two movements of Herbert Howells's concerto finally get a public airing in the very cathedral where he was a chorister in the 1900s.
Had the technology been available at the time, it would have been possible to wire up Edward Elgar to a neurological measurement device when he was composing his cello concerto and get a reading of what was going on in his brain at the time.
After the interval, Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra got off to a low-key start, only gaining the requisite bite in the virtuosic Game of Pairs that forms its scherzo.
The Concerto for Orchestra gets an upright and straight ahead performance, flecked with the string suppleness and woodwind finesse of mighty Montreal recordings of yore.
But there is a vast oeuvre, from chamber music to concerti grossi, that gets far fewer airings.
I've already got most of the concertos but there's something in his versions that seems to come straight from Bach, through his fingers.
