BBCSSO/Volkov review – Sibelius that didn't shake the soul as it should
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe second concert marking this year’s Sibelius anniversary featured a fluent if unremarkable account of his Third and Fourth symphonies, while the Violin Concerto didn’t reach out in the way the Albert Hall needsThe Proms have reached a festival within a festival, with three concerts marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sibelius. This second concert, like the first, was in the hands of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, this time under the directi
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