Beijing Symphony Orchestra/LPO/Tan – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThere's nothing quite like Beethoven's Choral Symphony, especially if you hear it three times over one weekend. Beginning with 27 July's magnificent Prom, which I listened to again on iPlayer the following day (just to check it really was as good as it seemed), the evening of 29 July's performance by players from the Beijing Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras, under the baton of the Beijing SO's music director Tan Lihua, inevitably suffered by comparison. But ...

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