This concert in Cardiff opened a sequence in which Christoph von Dohnányi would conduct Brahms’s Third Symphony with the Philharmonia Orchestra in four concerts within five days, moving between the capitals of Wales, Spain, England and France. ‘The Philharmonia was on glowing form,’ reported the Guardian, ‘and the implicit understanding with their conductor was nowhere more apparent than in the collaboration with Yefim Bronfman in the concerto.’