Philharmonia/Lazarev – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Nutcracker invariably surfaces at this time of year, and Alexander Lazarev and the Philharmonia closed their Sunday matinee with a suite from it. This was not, however, Tchaikovsky's own familiar selection of divertissements, but an altogether more intense sequence compiled by Evgeny Mravinsky, the legendary conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic in the Soviet era.It was hugely impressive. Mravinsky rejected all the Kingdom of Sweets confectionery in favour of the...

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