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Date and venueTitle
27-Nov-2011
Brighton Dome, Concert Hall
Blazing Bruckner in Brighton
Image credit: Brighton Philharmonic, © David GerrardAfter the overture, whose two movements, fast and slow, were adequately dispatched by a suitably small orchestra, the audience mistook the arrival of an orchestral horn player as that of the soloist himself, and burst into applause, which turned to laughter as the mistake became obvious. And this atmosphere of benign jollity was continued by the soloist proper, Martin Owen, who gave us a comic cadenza in which short blirrups were followed by a stunned stare at the audience as if he himself was surprised at what he’d just played.
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