FOUR stars might seem an extravagant hand-out for Friday night's SCO concert, in which Spanish conductor Pablo Gonzalez, though a lively and dynamic figure, didn't quite pull off the precision job required to guarantee the consistently top-drawer playing associated with the SCO in performance.
On too many occasions, in the performances of Beethoven's Egmont Overture at the start of the evening, and Mozart's early G minor Symphony at the close, ragged-edged ensemble at section and paragraph beginnings gave the music a bumpy ride.
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