BBCSO/Yamada – review

Barbican, LondonBitter experience suggests there can sometimes be an inverse relationship between the enduring worth of a new score and the battery of percussion instruments deployed to perform it. So the heart sank at the amount of ironmongery on the platform before the UK premiere of the violin concerto by the Austrian composer Thomas Larcher.But how wrong can one be? Larcher's concerto was not like that at all. Though it required an enormous orchestra at times, it is scored in the most delica...

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