16 Jun 2013
The Critic's Chair for 16 June 2013
This week on The Critic's Chair, Robert Johnson reviews famous orchestral interludes by Richard Wagner played the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, and the latest release of violin virtuoso James Ehnes in the music of Britten and Shostakovich with the Bournemouth SO. Finally, Robert presents the powerful music of Jewish composers imprisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Second World War by the Nash Ensemble.