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Proms Saturday Matinee 3: Camerata Ireland and Barry Douglas travel around Britten

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Reviewed at Cadogan Hall, London on 10 August 2013
Britten, Young Apollo
Berkeley, Serenade for Strings
Shostakovich, Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet and string orchestra, Op.35
Rainier, Movement for strings (world première)
Britten, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op.10
Alison Balsom, Trumpet
Camerata Ireland
Barry Douglas, Piano, Director
Sułkowska-Migoń’s Dublin programme crowned by a white-hot Scheherazade
****1
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra impresses at the Perth Festival
****1
Imperial Beethoven and riddling Shostakovich from Rana and Noseda
****1
Crisp Rachmaninov from Barry Douglas in Belfast
****1
Rachmaninov with an authentic Russian flavour at Cadogan Hall
****1
Barry Douglas majestic with below par Czech NSO
**111
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