LSO/Adès – review

Barbican, LondonThe first performance of a revised version of Hidd'n Blue, by the 26-year-old Spanish-born, London-based Francisco Coll, formed a brief upbeat to this London Symphony Orchestra programme conducted by Coll's teacher, Thomas Adès. The piece certainly lives up to Coll's description as "3D music for a virtuoso orchestra of the 21st century". Scored for a sizeable ensemble firing on most cylinders most of the time, including a varied posse of percussion, it displays a brilliant colou...

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