Music review: BBC SSO & John Wilson, City Halls, Glasgow
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YOU’VE got to admire the sheer chutzpah of conductor John Wilson and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra – not to mention their apparently unflagging energy and stamina. Just one of Respighi’s Roman Trilogy usually provides more than enough Technicolor excess for a single concert. To attempt all three of these exuberant, overwhelming, garish, noisy pieces – Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome – is an astonishing undertaking, and one of perhaps questionable wisdom.