Prom 19: BBCSO/Knussen – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonOliver Knussen seems to have taken up the cause of the Italian composer Niccolò Castiglioni, who died in 1996. Knussen has included Castiglioni's music in a couple of programmes with the London Sinfonietta, and made the exquisite 1970s score Inverno In-Ver the centrepiece of this appearance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.It was the first time Castiglioni's music has been heard at the Proms, and the " 11 musical poems" in this impression of winter landscapes provide a p...

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