BBCSO/Bělohlávek review – unforced musical truthfulness

Barbican, London
The instrumental colours of Dvořák’s quiet and introspective evening-long Requiem came to the fore in the conductor’s reunion with his former orchestraSince he stepped down as the BBC Symphony’s chief conductor five years ago, Jiří Bělohlávek’s reunions with his former orchestra have been for concert performances of operas by Janáček and Smetana. The programme this time was another large-scale Czech work, th