BBCSO/Stenz review – Glanert's subversive Strauss celebration

Barbican, London
Splenetic woodwind solos and pulsing accompaniments were the order of the day in Detlev Glanert’s hugely energetic Frenesia, composed as a riposte to StraussLast month, the BBC Symphony gave the British premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Brahms-Fantasie, and another of Glanert’s tributes to one of his German antecedents was the novelty in the orchestra’s latest concert, which was conducted by Markus Stenz.Unlike the Brahms piece, though, Frenesia – compos