BSO/Karabits – review

Colston Hall, BristolBritten and Rachmaninov are not often put together, but Kyrill Karabits and his Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra here chose two works with more in common than might at first be assumed. Britten's early masterpiece, the Sinfonia da Requiem, and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances, his last great piece, were both written in America in 1940. In each instance, the composers used a three-movement symphonic form, scored to include alto saxophone and piano, hardly the norm. Britten named ...

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