We're The Young Generation

I think I'll visit the BBC Music mag cover disk section of the shelf with a bit more regularity from now on, since I've completed the journey through a couple of the smaller shelves. So, considering another from back in 2002, this is a disk featuring performers who at the time were BBC Young Generation artists in mainstream concerto repertoire. An impressive cast too. Elisabeth Batiashvili on violin and Alban Gerhardt on cello play Brahms's Double Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic under Yan Pascal Tortelier while Ashley Wass performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3, again with the BBC Phil but this time under Vassily Sinaisky. The Double Concerto doesn't quite reach the heights of the commercial recording that I have with Shaham, Wang and the Berlin Phil conducted by Abbado but that is pretty much a benchmark recording. Batiashvili and Gerhardt certainly don't suffer too much in comparison. Wass also acquits himself very well in Beethoven's third concerto in what is I think the only recording I have of it. It would be idle to suggest that this is the foremost choice for the piece but it serves perfectly adequately. The disk is a bit like having a BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Performance to play whenever you feel like it.