Prom 30 – BBCSO/Knussen

Royal Albert Hall, LondonAlmost unnoticed, last week's proms included a miniature Respighi season, spread across three evenings. The works that make up his Roman trilogy were featured in successive concerts, and the central panel was Fountains of Rome, which began Oliver Knussen's programme with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.Respighi's superbly crafted works are often dismissed as conservative and concerned only with show, but there's a bit more to them than that. Though his musical language was r...

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