Uchida/LSO/Davis – review

Barbican Hall, LondonWhenever Colin Davis conducts, which, in his 80s, he now sits down to do, the effect is serene. Though Davis has never been strictly metronomic in his approach, there's a palpable sense of direction. This elusive quality, which Davis shares with fellow veteran Bernard Haitink, ran through the whole of this final evening of Davis's much-admired cycle of Nielsen symphonies and Beethoven piano concertos, with Mitsuko Uchida as soloist.First, though, there was Haydn: the first o...

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