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Prom 19: Knussen, Booth, the BBC SO and six sensual feasts

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 29 July 2011
Honegger, Pacific 231
Honegger, Pastorale d'été (Summer pastorale), H31
Bridge, There is a willow grows aslant a brook, H.173
Berg, Der Wein
Castiglioni, Inverno in-ver
Debussy, La Mer
Claire Booth, Soprano
Oliver Knussen, Conductor
Sakari Oramo, Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony in Seoul
****1
Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes
****1
From snow to sludge: Icelandic music at the Barbican Centre
**111
Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony
****1
UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance
**111
Sir James MacMillan delights with his Christmas Oratorio
*****
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