Belshazzar's Feast; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas project – review

Royal Festival Hall; The Connection at St Martin's-in-the-Field, LondonInstead of spending Christmas 1929 with his mother, William Walton gave as his excuse the need to get to work "on this thing for the BBC". A humbug by constitution, the Lancastrian composer disliked the festive season anyway, and wrote saying he would spend the day "in the train where one doesn't notice it". Today, in the absence of trains, he would have to spend it on the platform, where he might well have noticed it, and wh...

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