Lawrence Power/Philharmonia/Salonen review – commitment and virtuosity in works old and brand new

Lawrence Power and the Philharmonia Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen perform Lindberg’s Viola Concerto. Photograph: © Philharmonia Orchestra/Marc Gascoigne/Marc Gascoigne

The viola player Lawrence Power is a resident artist at the Southbank Centre this season. As well as playing concertos and chamber music, he’s exploring less conventional performances, and the first of those, Lawrence Power’s Lock-in, was a mix of video, live performances and spontaneous poetry readings, in which Power included music that he had commissioned during the Covid lockdowns.