A fizzing performance of Bizet and Gounod
It bubbles along with infectious delight in the SCO’s hands – I could listen to them playing this all day – dazzling between wind and strings
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Bizet • Gounod
Bizet: Symphony in C; Carmen Suite No. 1; Gounod: Petite Symphonie
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/François Leleux (oboe/conductor)
Linn Records CKD 624 63:30 mins
‘It bubbles along with infectious delight in the SCO’s hands – I could listen to them playing this all day – dazzling between wind and strings’
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Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's Digital Editor and Staff Writer. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music.