Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Chailly – review

Barbican, LondonRiccardo Chailly's Beethoven cycle with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, packed into five concerts spread across two weeks, is the musical highlight of the Barbican's autumn. The Gewandhaus is one of Europe's finest orchestras, while Chailly is one of a handful of living conductors who genuinely deserves to be called great. In the six years he has been in Leipzig, the centre of gravity of his programmes has shifted away from the late romantics back towards the early part of the...

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