The local, contemporary composer Robert Groslot shares billing with the ‘old’ stars Berlioz & Stravinsky. The solo part of Groslot’s Piano Concerto demands virtuosity but is not impossible: for Groslot, himself a great pianist, the musician’s pleasure in playing is a basic requirement of his work.

The concerto is preceded and followed by ebullient feasts of sound: first a frenzied overture by Berlioz, and then Le Sacre du printemps, the great pagan sacrificial ritual with which Stravinsky turned the musical world upside down.

Flagey, Brussels Philharmonic, Jeugd en Muziek Brussel