“… this fluid, nuanced performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Horsley…”

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Live broadcast for BBC Radio 3 to mark International Womens’ Day with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Jessica Horsley: Review by Rebecca Franks in The Times on 9.3.21.

“Decades of sexism, topped off by a burst water main. The composers Ruth Gipps and Peggy Glanville-Hicks haven’t always had it easy. But even a lost day of rehearsals didn’t dampen the BBC Concert Orchestra and the conductor Jessica Horsley’s evening dedicated to their music, broadcast live from Watford Colosseum to mark International Women’s Day.”

Read all of Rebecca’s review here.