It’s always promising when the orchestra won’t fit on the stage. For the UK première, some 97 years after it was written, of the Danish composer Rued Langgaard’s Sixth Symphony (The Heaven-Rending), the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra filled every available inch of platform space, with four additional trumpeters perched in the choir seats.
Richard Bratby
Rued awakening
If you like thunderous post-Romantic affirmation, Rued Langgaard’s music is for you
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