And heartfelt apologies they really were. “I cannot explain,” she wrote in the programme notes for Grosvenor Plays Chopin, “how sad I am to not be able to be with you tonight back in Poole with the brilliant BSO and a beautiful concert that I had planned.” The BSO’s Young Conductor, hampered by the current travel restrictions, need not have worried. Her beloved Polish compatriot Chopin and his Piano Concerto No 1 were in the very safest hands with the charismatic Gergely Madaras returning to the podium for a second week and soloist, Benjamin Grosvenor, BSO artist-in-residence, at the Steinway.