The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by John Wilson (James Ehnes: violin) perform Walton: Violin Concerto and Elgar: Symphony No.1in the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 10 Feb. 2022 Photo by Mark Allan

Philharmonia Orchestra/John Wilson, with James Ehnes, at Royal Festival Hall

In recent years John Wilson has emerged as a significant force in British music life even if audiences like him best as the man who extended the concept of authentic performance to the great twentieth-century songwriters and their arrangers. A relatively puny crowd had assembled to sample the present, not conspicuously generous tranche of mainstream …

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