LSO/Nelsons | Classical review

Barbican, LondonAndris Nelsons's international share price just keeps on rising at the moment. Debuts with the Vienna, Berlin and New York Philharmonics beckon this season, and there was no shortage of speculation at this debut concert with the London Symphony Orchestra that the LSO may be sounding him out for a longer term relationship. On the basis of this largely Russian evening, one can certainly see why.Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony has been interpreted almost to death, politically as much ...

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