24 March 2007 (Viviane Hagner, MPO, Matthais Bamert)

A typical boring German programme that we'd come to expect from Bamert! Though Hagner (she met me "pre-concert" and stated her favourite version of the Beethoven Violin Concerto was the quite swift Heifetz & Toscanini one) gave me the impression she'd play in a less traditional manner, this was a more usual interpretation (with rubato and tempi changes in the 1st movement complete with the Kreisler cadenza). After the interval, we had a normal (even boring!) interpretation of Brahms' Symphony No 4 - which was redeemed by some magnificent flute playing (Hristo Dubrinov) in the fourth movement.