BBCSSO / Wigglesworth / Osborne review – jazz energy meets its match in French insouciance

Aldeburgh festival, Snape Maltings
Ryan Wigglesworth’s new piano concerto, veering between tense, creepy and off-kilter, brought out the best in soloist Steven Osborne

A dance can be a frenzied release or a whimsical invitation, sophisticated or primal, gilded and ballroom-ready or slouching, whisky on its breath. In this Aldeburgh festival concert from Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, it was all these things and a couple more for good measure.

Resident throughout the festival’s opening weekend, the BBCSSO had brought reinforcements from home for this final concert in the form of Scottish pianist Steven Osborne – soloist in both Ravel’s Piano Concerto and, after the interval, Wigglesworth’s own.