Pekka Kuusisto: Willows album review – shining, creative and penetrating
‘We aren’t deleting notes,” says Pekka Kuusisto, “but deleting ketchup.” The Finnish conductor and violinist is talking about Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, a piece of such innate Britishness that it veritably tops UK classical song recognition polls. Kuusisto’s Lark isn’t RVW-lite, on the opposite hand, but a penetrating, convincingly upright myth that strips ...
