Lars Vogt, Music Director of the Gateshead-based Royal Northern Sinfonia, has just released a new album for Ondine of Brahms's First Piano Concerto and the Op 10 Ballades. James Jolly went to talk to him about the concerto and his decision to direct the work from the keyboard.

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