BBCSO/Runnicles – review

City Halls, GlasgowOver the last few seasons, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has commissioned four composers to write short companion pieces for Brahms's four symphonies. They have produced fascinatingly varied responses, from Matthias Pintscher's Ex Nihilo, which has nothing much to do with Brahms, to this last of the bunch, Detlev Glanert's Brahms-Fantasie.Subtitled Heliogravure for Orchestra, it is by far the most overtly Brahmsian, with sweeping hemiolas, thick-set Hungarian waltzes and...

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