Tortelier/ Iceland Symphony Orchestra
Cadogan Hall, 10th February 2020
It wasn’t just Storm Ciara that blew in from the west at the weekend. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra blasted in from Reykjavík to undertake its first UK tour, a welcome visitor after making a vivid impact in its BBC Proms debut in 2014. Unlike Ciara, the London leg didn’t quite leave a trail of devastation and destruction in its wake, although the brass climaxes in The Death of Tybalt from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet must have tested the foundations of Cadogan Hall. The ISO demonstrated plenty of muscle in a wide-ranging programme under former chief conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier.
Iceland Symphony Orchestra
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