Review: Britten Sinfonia – A spectacular farewell to Nicholas Daniel (The Times)

The oboist has played with the Sinfonia for 33 years, even while sustaining a dazzling solo career. This dazzling send-off concluded with a wall-shaking Messiaen

‘It will go down as one of the noisier farewells in music history. The great British oboist Nicholas Daniel has played with the Britten Sinfonia for 33 years, even while sustaining a dazzling solo career. With this concert under the towering arches of St George’s RC Cathedral in Southwark, he signed off in spectacular style.’

‘Daniel conducted it superbly, matching its ear-splitting climaxes, apocalyptic bass lines and granite-hard block chords with equally dramatic silences.’

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