IT'S almost incredible that it's 16 years since an amazing Eroica Symphony with the SCO in Glasgow set the SCO management off in hot pursuit of Joseph Swensen for principal conductor, a post he held for nine years.
Now, as conductor emeritus, he still has the old dynamism, which he and the orchestra demonstrated on Friday night in an exhilarating account of Schumann's Third Symphony, The Rhenish, that was as full-bodied and red-blooded as it was suave and expressive.
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