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Wild oscillations in Cardiff unite music by Beethoven, Schumann and Ligeti

Ryan Bancroft rehearses the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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“Bancroft treating the music like an elastic band that he would cheekily stretch back more and more”
Reviewed at BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff on 9 December 2022
Beethoven, Coriolan Overture, Op.62
Ligeti, Violin Concerto
Schumann, Symphony no. 4 in D minor, Op.120
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Ryan Bancroft, Conductor
Anthony Marwood, Violin
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****1
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Nil Venditti impresses in BBC Proms debut
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*****
Music that eats into you: Schoenberg and Zemlinsky at the BBC Proms
****1
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