BBC Philharmonic/Gourlay review – inventive, eclectic and ill-coordinated

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterGourlay’s pulverising Montagues and Capulets upstages ambitious attempts to soundtrack Shakespeare via the Turing test and gay cruisingThe original Manchester School of composers, centred around Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr and the late Peter Maxwell Davies, exerted a decisive influence on the course of contemporary English music. A second generation has yet to emerge; though the BBC Philharmonic is sufficiently confident about the talent in the city to...

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