OAE/Rattle – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonEven now, more than 50 years after it all began, the period-instrument movement can still produce wonderful, eye-opening surprises. The frontline of its pioneering has shifted ever closer to our own time, and has now reached the early decades of the last century; the differences between the orchestral instruments of that time and those of today may be much smaller than, for instance, between Beethoven's orchestra and today's, but as Simon Rattle's concert with the Orch...

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