SCO/Ticciati – review

Barbican, LondonA programme of favourites, under a genuine rising-star conductor: the Barbican should have been packed, but too few London concertgoers seem aware of quite how good the Scottish Chamber Orchestra actually is.The string tone that Robin Ticciati drew was distinctive from the start: supple, simple and tender, just right for Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Momentum faltered briefly midway through as the horn took over and the wheeling woodwind birdcalls seemed to stutter, but that was a mo...

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