LCO/Brunt – review

Shoreditch Church, LondonThe first concert of this year's Spitalfields Music Winter festival, given by the London Contemporary Orchestra under conductor Hugh Brunt, included a new commission from the 30-year-old Scottish composer Martin Suckling. His violin concerto De Sol y Grana takes its title from a line by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado that translates, roughly, as "of sun(light) and scarlet". Scored for soloist and an ensemble of 14 players, it leaves an impression of vibrant colours and...

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