LSO/Harding

Barbican, LondonDaniel Harding has emerged as an exceptional Brahms interpreter in the last year, so it was perhaps appropriate that he should close the London Symphony Orchestra season with the Second Symphony. As we've come to expect, Harding is immaculate in his ability to negotiate the complex relationship between feeling and form in Brahms. Even so, this was an unusually volatile interpretation of a work that has been variously described as "pastoral", "autumnal" and "sunny". The first mov...

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