BBCSSO/Wigglesworth / Booth review – Brett Dean’s song cycle is rich and strange

Royal Albert Hall Soprano Clare Booth, Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish gave the world premiere of Dean’s theatrical and engaging The World’s Wife. Elgar’s 1st didn’t quite achieve lift-off but Weir’s Moon and Star had sweep and shimmer You can talk symphonic architecture, pacing and balance all day long, but when Elgar is right you just feel it. A good First Symphony lands somewhere between heart and head, each tugging you back and forth between admiration and emotion at a piece Hans Richter famously called “the greatest symphony of modern times”. In their first Prom of the season Ryan

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