BBC Philharmonic/Noseda | Classical review

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterWhen a score by a major composer goes unheard for 61 years, there's usually a reason why. By the time Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic had finished giving Dallapiccola's ballet Marsia its first complete outing since 1948, one was left wondering, however, what that reason might be.Dallapiccola's treatment of his subject, the flaying of Marsyas, falls squarely into a 20th-century tradition of politically engaged mythological reworkings. Marsyas had his skin ri...

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