Prom 10: BBC Philharmonic/Mena – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonOn paper, this was a beguiling, start-of-the-summer-holidays, trans-Pyrenean programme. And, in many ways, it did not disappoint. Debussy's three orchestral Images – of which by far the most substantial is his three-movement Ibéria – were interlaced with two of Ravel's important Spanish-influenced compositions and a major piece by Falla, a son of Cadiz who studied in Paris. Yet, somehow, for all its many beauties, it didn't quite come off as an event. The evening la...

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