Britten Sinfonia review — a spectacular farewell to Nicholas Daniel
Bringing together the combined wind, brass and percussion players of the Britten Sinfonia and the Sinfonia Smith Square, plus the excellent choir of Merton College, Oxford, the programme mingled mysticism and modernism in a way that seemed to reflect Daniel's own adventurous yet highly charged music making.
In this ultra-resonant acoustic the two Stravinsky pieces conducted by him — Symphonies of Wind Instruments and the Mass — perhaps lacked the
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