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the highlight programmes for this season. With the last minute
triumphant and jubilant German music. The romantic era works are
due to the extensive length of this work. The long runtime, solo
to convey the music, does nothing to aid this issue. While it feels
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quality of the performance, the work nonetheless feels strained,
particularly during the second movement. In a way the first half felt
to view, yet the length of the sections, coupled with the intense
of Strauss tone poems. The work calls for around one hundred
the work, with the resonance coming across from every direction,
sounds from huge organ chords to quiet harp arpeggiation and even
the use of a wind machine. In particular the horn section pushes out
a huge tone across large sections of the piece, taking the centre
stage for the work and acting as one of the highlights for the
evening. In full this work proved more engaging then the entire first
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Overall the night proved to be a massively enjoyable as a
of work created some negative points for the night, its hard to deny