It was good to escape into some music at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall last night.
The Tchaikovsky violin concerto was delivered with aplomb by the orchestra and the brilliant soloist Diana Tischenko. Oh to be that outrageously good at something.
Then the orchestra played Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (The Pastoral) under the assured conduction of Ariane Matiakh. The final movement, the calm after the storm, felt rather fitting in the circumstances. Rather like an act of deliverance and a reassurance in the midst of our troubled times that all will be well.