LPO/Jurowski/Vogt – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMatthias Pintscher was one of several composers commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic in 2005 to write a short work depicting an asteroid, for performance alongside Holst's The Planets. The idea, if clever, was vaguely gimmicky, and Holst's suite soon parted company from its companion pieces. The latter haven't entirely disappeared, however, and Pintscher's piece, Towards Osiris, opened Vladimir Jurowski's latest concert with the London Philharmonic.Fastidiously orc...

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