Bournemouth SO/Karabits review – beautifully engineered all-Soviet programme

Lighthouse, Poole
Prokofiev was paired with Shostakovich on a night when Kirill Karabits brought out the full tragic power of the latter’s Eight symphonyIn the eight years that Kirill Karabits has been the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor he has shown an ever-widening range of musical sympathies, from the baroque to the present day. But Russian music has always brought the best out of the Ukrainian-born Karabits, and his latest programme was an all-Soviet affair, pair