| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 27-Nov-2011 Brighton Dome, Concert Hall | Blazing Bruckner in Brighton |
After 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.Read full review... | |