Sunday Feature: Concerto

Actor Simon Russell Beale explores the complex dynamics in concertos between soloist and ensemble, from the baroque times to the highly virtuosic concertos of romanticism to now. He talks to violinists and period-performance experts Margaret Faultless and Simon McVeigh about the emergence of the baroque concerto, to the violinist Nicola Benedetti about what it is like to be a soloist in a highly virtuosic work like the Beethoven Violin Concerto, and to the conductor Marin Alsop about her role in a concerto performance