BBCNOW/Fischer |Classical

Hoddinott Hall, CardiffCombining Schoenberg, Berg and Webern in one programme would strike most as an eyewatering challenge. Music from the first Viennese school is usually required to sweeten the bitter pill of the second but, despite the absence of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, this concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales got a good and a warmly enthusiastic audience. Perhaps there's a correlation between 12-tone music and straightened economic times.Webern's Passacaglia, Op 1 (190...

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