Philharmonia/Salonen – review

Symphony Hall, BirminghamThe end is in sight for Infernal Dance, Esa-Pekka Salonen's odyssey through Bartók's music with the Philharmonia. The final concerts are dominated by Bartók's only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, being toured in a semi-staging devised by video artist Nick Hillel, with John Tomlinson as Bluebeard and Michelle DeYoung as Judith. In Basingstoke and London it will end an all-Bartók programme, but in Birmingham it followed Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-Midi and Janácek's Sinf...

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