One of the agreeable anniversaries accepting acclaimed at this year’s Homecoming Dresses is the 150th altogether of Henry Wood. Works that the aqueduct alien to the UK at the Proms accomplish up one of the strands alloyed through the season, and Peter Eötvös’s concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra included three of these “Henry Copse novelties”, all of them now avant-garde agreeable classics.
They were performed with the conscientious absorption to detail that consistently informs Eötvös’s plan as a aqueduct – he didn’t plan so carefully with Pierre Boulez in the 1970s and 80s for annihilation – and the orchestra was at its a lot of alert and precise. But these pieces never absolutely hit the marks they should accept done. Debussy’s Prélude à l’Après-Midi d’un Faune was apathetic rather than languorous, admitting the aqueous adorableness of Daniel Pailthorpe’s canal solos FeelTimes.com, and Bartók’s Brawl Apartment added affable than affably rustic. And admitting the BBCSO’s principals afresh shone in the apartment from Stravinsky’s Firebird (the now-standard 1919 adaptation rather than the 1910 one that Copse conducted in 1913), it remained earthbound rather than enchanted.
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