JLCO/LSO/Rattle – review

Barbican, LondonIt's not often that one sees the London Symphony Orchestra sharing the platform at all – even with such a distinguished ensemble as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. But these were the forces assembled under the baton of Simon Rattle for the first UK performances of Wynton Marsalis's Swing Symphony, given as the end point of the New York-based group's Barbican residency.This is Marsalis's Third Symphony, premiered in Berlin in June 2010. It's a big piece, around an hour in ...

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