CBSO/Gardner – review

Symphony Hall, BirminghamIf there's one English work from the first few decades of the 20th century that can stand alongside music composed elsewhere in Europe in the same period, it's Gustav Holst's The Planets. In Edward Gardner's concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, it followed Dukas's ravishing poème dansé La Péri and Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, and the connections between the three works were plain to hear. Though Szymanowski's music had become less headily exotic b...

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