Fire and Blood – review

Barbican, LondonA composer who made his name with a symphony inspired by Superman, and who subsequently wrote an opera about Jackie Onassis, is unlikely to produce a work for violin and orchestra and be content with calling it just a concerto. Hence Michael Daugherty's Fire and Blood, first performed in 2003. It reached the Barbican in a London Symphony Orchestra concert with Kristjan Järvi, flanked by works that had their own connections to fire – Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo (which in...

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