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Flights of fancy: Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic soar in César Franck at Cadogan Hall

By Mark Pullinger, 28 May 2016
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Reviewed at Cadogan Hall, London on 27 May 2016
Programme
Fauré, Masques et bergamasques, suite for orchestra, Op.112
Schumann, Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Franck, Symphony in D minor, Op.48
Performers
Brussels Philharmonic
Barry Douglas, Piano
Hervé Niquet, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.