The orchestra was the excellent English Chamber Orchestra, again producing a very crisp, taught sound, in spite of the often very quick speeds chosen by the conductor.
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How old is Emile de Becque? Perhaps because my first Emile was the 1958 film version’s Rossano Brazzi, my vision of the lonely French plantation owner in the South Pacific during the Second World War has been coloured by that casting: a visibly greying, slightly stiff man with correct manners who conforms to the vague description “middle-aged”.