City of London Sinfonia, conductor Richard Hickox

Symphony Hall, Birmingham Feb 5th

".....Genuine freshness came with a scintillating account of the First Piano Concerto (Mendelssohn's 1840 offering) from teenage soloist Lukas Vondracek.

Brimming with nervous tension, even the most lingered-on notes moving the music forward, Vondracek's young man's reading was matched by a crackling orchestral contribution, but one affording much delicacy, too, and in the lovely andante, gorgeously warm playing from cellos and violas."

Christopher Morley