CBSO/Knussen; Monteverdi Choir/Gardiner – review

Aldeburgh festivalOliver Knussen, being properly feted in the week of his 60th birthday, and Elliott Carter at 103, no less, were the focus of this remarkable Aldeburgh festival concert. For this collaboration with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Knussen had constructed a programme that highlighted influences and offered comparisons. He conducted it in the same characteristically fastidious, inspired way, embracing extremes of time and of fe...

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