BBCSSO/Donald Runnicles – review

City Halls, GlasgowThis concert showed the best and worst of Donald Runnicles. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor recently extended his contract for another three years, and the vast, luscious colours he drew in extracts from Der Rosenkavalier were proof of why. The impact he can make with this orchestra is spectacular.But he was a lame accompanist for Mozart's fifth violin concerto, thoroughly upstaged by the feisty young soloist Vilde Frang. The Norwegian's playing is enti...

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