LPO/Jurowski – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe London Philharmonic's latest programme under Vladimir Jurowski, which sandwiched the eloquent clarity of Mozart's A major violin concerto between two overblown works from later epochs, suggested that less is often more.At the start, under Jurowski's firm control, Julian Anderson's Fantasias, a five-movement concerto for orchestra written in 2009 and played to acclaim at the Proms a year ago, confirmed itself as a richly written but overindulgent piece. The openin...

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