LPO/Eschenbach – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonChristoph Eschenbach's latest London Philharmonic concert gave us a comparatively rare opportunity to hear him conduct Schumann, of whom he is a fine, if idiosyncratic interpreter. The main work was the Second Symphony, written during Schumann's recovery from a depressive crisis in 1844-5. It has long divided opinion, and assumptions about its psychotherapeutic genesis have led some to redefine its innovations as eccentricities.Eschenbach's aim was to remind us first a...

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