LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review

Royal Festival Hall, London; Theatre Royal; Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; City Halls, Glasgow"Frothy" arouses suspicions when applied to music. The epithet is nearly as bad as "fun", especially when the intention is to make the difficult seem easy. Prokofiev (1891-1953) has been saddled with both terms, usually with "ironic" or "sardonic" added as adjectival stiffeners: pleasure with salt. While generations of children have delighted in his Peter and the Wolf, some graduating to the sparkling...

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