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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexandra Coghlan

BBCSSO / Wigglesworth / Osborne review – jazz energy meets its match in French insouciance

Performance picture of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, with soloist Steven Osborne.
Playing the straight man: soloist Steven Osborne with the BBCSSO conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth. Photograph: Angus Cooke

A dance can be a frenzied release or a whimsical invitation, sophisticated or primal, gilded and ballroom-ready or slouching, whisky on its breath. In this Aldeburgh festival concert from Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, it was all these things and a couple more for good measure.

Resident throughout the festival’s opening weekend, the BBCSSO had brought reinforcements from home for this final concert in the form of Scottish pianist Steven Osborne – soloist in both Ravel’s Piano Concerto and, after the interval, Wigglesworth’s own.

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