London Phoenix Orchestra’s spring concert features Sibelius’s Second Symphony, which the composer described as ‘a confession of the soul’, although critic Virgil Thompson’s assessment was more brutal: ‘vulgar, self-indulgent, and provincial beyond all description’. To offset the vulgarity, the first half opens with Harty’s breezy Comedy Overture before the orchestra is joined by Emmanuella Reiter for Martinu’s lyrical Rhapsody-Concerto.”

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