Superb singing from Rachel Nicholls with a voice of such velvet purity and intensity but it was the orchestra that was so extraordinary under its conductor Henry Kennedy.Some of the finest young players from the London conservatories united under their founder conductor to produce a remarkably rich and sensitive sound.

An orchestra that listens to itself is one to cherish indeed but when you add their youthful passion and technical mastery you have an orchestra that can turn Bruckner’s mighty Romantic Symphony into the masterpiece that it truly is.
A sense of line and overall architectural shape that was so clearly etched.Like Jochum and the great German school the brass was allowed it’s just weight never overpowering the sumptuous string playing.Playing of silvery lightness that built to tumultuous ravishing fortissimi.Such sensitivity in the Wesendonck Lieder that created the world that the superb Rachel Nicholls was describing from The Angel to the magical Dreams via the Agonies and the wheel of time that measures eternity.

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