The Critic's Chair for 21 April 2013

Kenneth Young reviews The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's latest recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 1 conducted by Marin Alsop, a live concert with violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman, the New York Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert in music by Beethoven, Stravinsky and Ravel, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique by l'Orchestre National de Lyon and Leonard Slatkin, and pays tribute to Colin Davis with Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 and violinst Arthur Grumiaux.