Ehnes/LSO/Noseda - review

Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra have programmed no fewer than eight violin concertos for the current season, with guest soloists including Viktoria Mullova and Nikolaj Znaider. Tuesday night's visitor was the Canadian James Ehnes, who put his delicate sensibilities at the service of Bartók's second contribution to the genre. Composed in the late 1930s – with one ear directed toward the rise of fascism, and the other turned to the conservative critics complaining about his progre...

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