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★★★★☆
The biggest game in the vicinity on Saturday was obviously the Premier League match between Manchester United and Manchester City. Yet plenty of gentler pleasures existed at the Bridgewater Hall: diaphanous strings, avian flutes, a percussionist’s wood blocks plopping away like drops of rain. Far fewer people turned up to hear the BBC Philharmonic’s concert under the nimble baton of Elena Schwarz. Maybe they were frightened off by two slabs of the unfamiliar, one of a world premiere.
In each case little of what was on offer was scary. The only obvious drawback to Tom Coult’s Pleasure Garden — the first fruit of Coult’s stint as the orchestra’s composer-in-association — was that it didn’t behave like the violin concerto that had been advertised. Indeed,
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