Even the stormy opening declamation yielded gracefully to reflection in Johnston’s relaxed and flexible phrasing, which made a strong case for the work as essentially neoclassical rather than Romantic in spirit. Guy Johnston (2 August) took a different tack, launching a sequence of cello concertos at this season’s BBC Proms by taking a lyrical rather than heroic route through the familiar yet perennially underrated pleasures of the First Concerto by Saint-Saëns. You don’t have to be Rostropovich or Yo-Yo Ma to project into the Royal Albert Hall – but it helps, most of the time.
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