BSO/Karabits - review

Town Hall, CheltenhamFor this Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra concert at Cheltenham, their principal conductor, Kirill Karabits, had devised a programme pairing Beethoven's Eroica Symphony with Berg's Violin Concerto. Presenting works from the first and second Viennese schools in this way is a standard ploy but, by way of preface, Karabits offered Webern's arrangement of Bach's Ricercar from the Musical Offering. It was a subtle way of attuning the audience's ear: the strict contrapuntal workings...

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