Basel Chamber Orchestra/Padmore – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonTwenty musicians, mostly standing, makes for a crowded Wigmore platform. But in this programme featuring, in addition to the Basel Chamber Orchestra, Mark Padmore as vocal soloist, alongside horn player Olivier Darbellay, the hall's acoustic took this unusually large assembly in its stride.In fact, the renowned Basel Chamber Orchestra, led on this occasion by Yuki Kasai, was shorn of its wind players for the first half's major work, Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Stri...

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