BBCSO/Gaffigan review – all-American evening of sleek grooves and edge-of-seat Barber
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Concerto for Orchestra was playful and punchy, before elegant Gershwin and noirish BarberIt’s been a busy week for Wynton Marsalis. Fresh from opening the Edinburgh festival with his monumental 1999 jazz symphony All Rise, the Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer saw the UK premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra at the BBC Proms. And if the former is Marsalis at his most earnestly, sprawlingly ambitious, the latter finds him almost relaxed in…
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