Lighthouse, PooleBSO’s concert with their chief conductor Mark Wigglesworth mixed Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Adès and Sibelius. Best of all was the Tippett, and the Sibelius 5 had personality to burn On paper, it was a curious programme: Tippett’s Concerto for Double String Orchestra and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, followed post-interval by Adès’s Märchentänze and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. A calculated…
Lighthouse, PooleBSO’s concert with their chief conductor Mark Wigglesworth mixed Tippett, Vaughan Williams, Adès and Sibelius. Best of all was the Tippett, and the Sibelius 5 had personality to burn On paper, it was a curious programme: Tippett’s Concerto for Double String Orchestra and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, followed post-interval by Adès’s Märchentänze and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. A calculated…