LSO/Bychkov/Kavakos – review

Barbican, LondonLeonidas Kavakos must be wondering if he will ever get to play the concerto Osvaldo Golijov is writing for him, which remains unfinished more than 18 months after its planned premiere. In its place, Kavakos opened his mini-residency with the LSO with one of his signature works: the Violin Concerto by Berg.Berg's concerto is an elegiac work, in which shock and grief at the death of an 18-year-old family friend spills out between the notes. Kavakos's approach, though, is to keep hi...

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