LSO/Gergiev/Fleming – review

Barbican, LondonRenée Fleming, for many people, is the embodiment of divadom, so it can come as a surprise to learn that she has always been drawn to new music – the legacy, one suspects, of her studies with the great contemporary music singer Jan DeGaetani. Fleming's artistry, meanwhile, was the inspiration for Henri Dutilleux's song cycle Le Temps L'Horloge, which she premiered in Paris in 2009. Valery Gergiev's latest concert with the London Symphony Orchestra included the work's first UK ...

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