FIVE stars is all we've got; so we would need to plunder the firmament to find an appropriate number of celestial bodies with which to bless one of the finest RSNO concerts I have heard in years, and celebrate the outstanding playing of the orchestra for its Danish principal guest conductor, Thomas Sondergard, on Saturday night.
Years ago a former RSNO chief executive, looking enviously over one shoulder at the work of Osmo Vanska and the BBC SSO, and nostalgically over the other at the work of Alexander Gibson and the SNO, said something memorable of the RSNO: "This orchestra needs a good Sibelius conductor."
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