Proms 27 & 28: Hallé/Elder; BCMG/Volkov | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonJohn Foulds's' eight-minute symphonic poem April – England, which opened Mark Elder's concert with the Hallé, is a far less ambitious work than his Dynamic Triptych, the piano concerto played by the BBC Scottish Symphony's Prom three days earlier, also being heard at the Proms for the first time. April - England is a mildly subversive exercise in English pastoralism, perky and rippling in its outer sections, but going walkabout in between, and visiting some unexpected...

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