Between Two Worlds Festival and Rumpelstiltskin | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonCBSO Centre, BirminghamMind-blowing is one of those expressions best allowed out every five years at most. This quinquennial airing greets the UK premiere of Alfred Schnittke's extraordinary The History of D Johann Faustus, part of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Between Two Worlds festival lovingly devised by conductor Vladimir Jurowski.Schnittke, who would have been 75 this year, completed the opera just before a long and final incapacitating illness which led to...

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