BBCNOW/Minczuk – review

Brangwyn Hall, SwanseaThe Brangwyn Hall acoustic lends a lovely overall warmth to any music, but this concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Brazilian conductor Roberto Minczuk was made up of two such totally different halves as to deny it proper integrity. There was, however, no lack of curiosity value.Opening the evening, the Three Hungarian Sketches by triple Oscar-winning Miklós Rózsa sounded like a mishmash of film scores, even though they were composed in 1938, before Rózs...

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