"THE BBC SSO, reinforced with a brace of vocal soloists, soprano Katherine Broderick and mezzo Clara Mouriz, a questing concert pianist in Alexander Gavrylyuk, a hit squad of actors from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Andrew Nunn's classy little vocal ensemble, Les Sirènes, pulled off a collegiate coup in a concert on Thursday night that rolled out high art, great literature, atmospherically-lit semi-staged theatre, endless musical wit, invention and characterisation, to say nothing of Shakespeare's comedic genius, that was as refined in its presentation as it was vulgar and hilarious - and all, in equal measure, garlanded with typically-committed BBC SSO playing, in which you can hear the grain as much as the gloss."

Is that the longest sentence that has ever been penned by Michael Tumelty? Brilliant concert, brilliant review (Herald Arts, May 18).

Catherine M Bergamini,

24 Mossgiel Road, Glasgow.