LSO/Gergiev/Freire – review

Barbican, LondonThis has been a heart-on-sleeve week for the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. They opened the season with a showcase for the winners of this year's Tchaikovsky competition; a few days later they were back with the same composer, and his feverish Fourth Symphony. If they had to restrain themselves in the first concert to let the soloists be heard, there was to be none of that here.There was a piano concerto, though, as colossal as any of Tchaikovsky's: Brahms's Second...

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