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Bancroft, ensuring split-second coordination with every kick and crunching tackle. To say it was

ecstatically received would be an understatement. In a Barbican Hall packed with Gooners, the

cheers were frequently louder than on the old North Bank, Highbury. On BBC Sounds

Richard Morrison
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The entrancing world premiere of Tom Coult’s Pleasure Garden

★★★★☆

Viewed as an orchestral tapestry, one wonder followed another, each inspired by garden spaces

created over the centuries in Japan, Florence and Salford. The work was partly commissioned to

mark the opening of RHS Garden Bridgewater Salford. Japan, however, seems to have excited

Coult the most, judging by the first movement’s dazzling raindrop polyphony from Kyoto and

the finale’s rock gardens, marked by shifting gestures that begin out of sync and never quite
click together. On BBC Sounds from Nov 10

Geoff Brown

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English National Opera’s HMS Pinafore is joyous
MARC BRENNER