BBC Philharmonic/Mena – review

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterManchester is marking the 150th anniversary this year of the birth of Debussy with a six-month-long festival of orchestral concerts, recitals and talks. The pianist Noriko Ogawa is artistic director of Reflections on Debussy, and the BBC Philharmonic is contributing four concerts, each built around one of the composer's great orchestral works. Juanjo Mena conducted the first of them, framing the Nocturnes with works by Mozart, Ives, Takemitsu and Sibelius, all with so...

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