Review: Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen burrows into Bartók with the CSO
It’s been too long since we’ve seen Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium. The conductor-composer, a youthful 66, had to bail on ...
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Widmann, LSO, Pappano, Barbican review - razor-sharp attack in adrenalin charges
Perhaps all great music counterpoints and comments on the times, but Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra have been searingly congruent. Before he took up his post as Chief Conductor, ...