Review: Prom 29: Bavouzet, BBC Phil, Collon - Royal Albert Hall, London

This fascinating Prom began with a Mozart work which opera audiences sometimes hear but never listen to – the long dance suite which rounds off Idomeneo: not a masterpiece, but worth getting to know. Then Jean-Efflam Bavouzet took the solo part in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, making the Gershwinesque first movement infectiously jazzy before delivering the problematic Adagio as though it were no problem at all: in most hands the melodic line drifts limply, but Bavouzet gave it shape. After despatching the finale with panache, he gave a brilliant Pierné encore.