Conductor Andrew Manze's interpretation of Vaughan Williams's Third Symphony with the BBC SSO on Thursday night touched the pulse of the piece.
Though entitled the Pastoral Symphony, it's anything but: it's a war symphony, though not one that features the violence and vehemence of its theme; that was to come in the visceral music of the Fourth Symphony. The Third is steeped in sad poignancy: of regret; of the grief and loss in the asinine and mindless brutality of all wars that see flesh and spirit ripped.
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