BBCSO/Belohlávek

Barbican, LondonThere is something cheering about discovering Bohuslav MartinËšu's music, and about finding an imagination so quirkily yet lyrically buoyant. What's not cheering is the half-hearted way in which his 50-year anniversary has been marked by our major orchestras. Leading the otherwise reluctant field is the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Czech chief, Jiˇrí Bˇelohlávek, who brought us the opera Juliette in March, and, here, a survey of MartinËšu's six symphonies ...

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