LSO/Harding | Classical review

Barbican, LondonFor all the confidence and accomplishment of Jörg Widmann's music, there's something profoundly unsatisfying, almost trivial about it. The latest significant Widmann score to reach London is his 2007 violin concerto, composed for Christian Tetzlaff, who played it with the London Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Harding. It's well tailored to Tetzlaff's phenomenal gifts: the violinist gets only a few breaks in the 25-minute single movement, and every aspect of his technique is tes...

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