Taking the knocks: the chequered history of the percussion concerto

Can O Duo transcend some of the dross this genre has produced in the past?Percussion concertos. God love 'em. As those energetic rhythmicists Olly and Owen of O Duo tell me in today's paper, they hope the concerto that Stephen McNeff has written for them and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, ConcertO Duo (see what he's done there?), will sound like more than an orchestral accompaniment to enthusiastic DIY.The genre of the percussion concerto – and still more the double percussion concerto – has of...

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