BBCSSO/Collon: Philip Glass premiere – review

City Halls, GlasgowPhilip Glass's Sixth Symphony – a setting for soprano and orchestra of Allen Ginsberg's rambling anti-nuclear poem Plutonian Ode – was commissioned to celebrate the composer's 65th birthday 10 years ago but hasn't received its UK premiere until now. We needn't have held our breath. Overlong and belligerent, the Plutonian is devoid of new ideas, and Glass's blatant regurgitation of old tricks makes a mockery of the innovation he once championed and for which he's still fana...

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