BBCSSO/Runnicles | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonDonald Runnicles took over at the helm of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra last autumn, succeeding Ilan Volkov. He's a conductor with very different sympathies from those of his predecessor, and the programme for his first appearance at the Proms with his new band – a sequence of English music by John Foulds, Vaughan Williams and Elgar – might have been designed to emphasise the differences.Foulds's 1929 piano concerto, Dynamic Triptych, was receiving its first ou...

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