CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review

Symphony Hall, Birmingham; Bamberg, GermanyDouble basses quiver and swirl on a note so murky it is hard to hear the pitch. A lone trumpet ascends in a three-note sunrise through an octave, followed by a cataclysm of thundering drumbeats. Add to that the evolution of the human race, man, superman, illness, death, transfiguration, a levitating Latvian maestro and a flying baton dropped somewhere amid the cellos and this was Symphony Hall, Birmingham last Thursday night, the CBSO's first major conc...

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