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What a pleasure it was to see the effervescent Marc Minkowski conducting a programme of 20th-century French music with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It was certainly a lively and well-thought-out concert, with Minkowski bringing all the clarity and detailed awareness of colour that he has bought to his performances of early music.

I had never heard any of the music scheduled the evening’s performance and so I was excited by the prospect of the all-French programme, featuring composers whose music I am particularly fond of.

Albert Roussel disait de Bohuslav Martinů « ce sera mon chef-d'œuvre ». 

Dans le tout nouvel Auditorium de Radio France, Stéphane Denève remet la musique au cœur du sujet, dans une sobre Réformation, un amusant Concerto pour deux pianos de Poulenc et une très colorée troisième symphonie de Roussel.