By EDWARD SECKERSON

Increasingly these days, Sir Colin Davis seems to be weathering the elements of the music he conducts. At moments of crisis, he is King Lear defying the storm.... If Davis was King Lear, then Midori was Cordelia in their performance of Sibelius's Violin Concerto. She was characteristically strong-willed, a free spirit throughout - particularly in the opening measures where the remoteness of her dynamics lent an ethereal quality. There was space and freedom and there were very personal, pliant, phrasings. In the slow movement, her inwardness was affecting and we were all ears as she put it to rest, barely grazing the final glissando.