SCO/Ticciati – review

Queen's Hall, EdinburghThis was the first concert in the SCO's Stravinsky series, but the revelation of the night was Robin Ticciati's Tchaikovsky. Hearing him conduct The Nutcracker after Stravinsky's 1936 ballet Jeu de Cartes and one of Haydn's stranger symphonies, attacking it with the same vigour and clarity, gave these sugar plums and dancing mice a whole new character: more outlandish and certainly more interesting than the sickly stereotype. The Waltz of the Flowers was ultra-lush but als...

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