The Munich Radio Orchestra is performing the Downton Abbey soundtrack tomorrow at 7 pm in concert and on stream.
The piano soloist is John Lunn, the Scottish composer who wrote the series’ background music.
Never having watched more than half a Covid episode of Downton, I am staggered by its fame. Yesterday, in a supermarket aisle, I saw two of its actors being congratulated by a fellow-shopper.
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Concert of the week by Simon Rattle and the BRSO – Three French composers, eclectic to a fault. The post Stick out the Boulez, stay for Ravel appeared first on Slippedisc.
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