CBSO/Knussen – review

Symphony Hall, BirminghamOliver Knussen reaches 60 this year, and the British orchestras with whom he regularly works are queuing up to celebrate. The latest in line was the City of Birmingham Symphony for whom Knussen devised a programme that framed his own Whitman Settings and Berg's Altenberg-Lieder with music by Ravel and Debussy.The song cycles make a well-matched pair. In the first of Knussen's settings, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer, the way in which the music unpacks itself unti...

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