Cleveland Orchestra/Welser-Möst | Classical review

Usher Hall, EdinburghWe don't hear the Cleveland Orchestra in the UK as often as we might. That their reputation as one of the world's great ensembles is richly deserved was borne out by the second of their Edinburgh concerts with their music director Franz Welser-Möst. The first half – extracts from Korngold's Die Tote Stadt and Berg's Lulu Suite – was high on orchestral virtuosity and textural eroticism, and you would be hard pressed to find either work better played or more perfectly con...

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