Prom 26: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonYou can, on occasion, have too much of a good thing. Donald Runnicles's first Prom with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra opened with Debussy's Prélude à L'Après-Midi d'un Faune and went on to explore its influence on the music of Dutilleux and Ravel – the former represented by his cello concerto Tout un Monde Lointain, the latter by Boléro and Daphnis et Chloé. Examining a seminal score in the context of its legacy is, of course, a common practice in programmin...

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