BBCSO/Knussen – review |
| from The Guardian |
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| Barbican, LondonOliver Knussen rarely conducts a programme that doesn't include at least one premiere, and his latest appearance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra contained two, both 80th-birthday tributes.The lithe, quick-witted music of Niccolò Castiglioni, who died in 1996, is one of Knussen's current enthusiasms, and here he gave the first UK performance of a compact early piece, the six-minute Concerto for Orchestra, composed in 1963. Full of sharp-edged, vivid sonorities and…
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