Philharmonia/Salonen – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonWith its glittering piano part and delicately defined orchestral shapes and textures, Schoenberg's 1942 Piano Concerto is one of his most immediately accessible 12-tone works. But as with much of Schoenberg's music, it remains a tough sell at the box office even after 70 years. Even with the redoubtable Mitsuko Uchida as soloist, and bracketed by mainstream Brahms and Beethoven, there were plenty of empty seats in the hall for this relatively rare, but top drawer rend...

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