Prom 52: LSO/Gergiev/Kavakos – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn the bright acoustic of the Barbican, its home, the London Symphony Orchestra regularly threatens to flatten the auditorium walls. The Barbican is a broom cupboard compared to the Royal Albert Hall, but even here the LSO's barnstorming playing shook the hall to its foundations.In any setting, the LSO's sound remains distinctive: bright, incisive and making its impact through precision more than mere loudness. This last point was especially true in Prokofiev's Classical...

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