In a second year of huge disruption to classical music performances, we asked our critics to tell us about their highlights, and what aspects of 2021 they’re showing the red card to
Dramatic and elegiac ... the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Up for Grabs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.It’s hard to imagine two concert locations less alike than Snape Maltings at midsummer, with the sun setting over the marshes, and London’s Barbican Centre in November, thronged with football fans wearing their tribal colours, yet both provided utterly memorable musical experiences.
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