LPO/Jurowski | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonNext season, ENO stages both Gounod's and Berlioz's versions of Faust. This London Philharmonic programme under Vladimir Jurowski also emphasised how uniquely fruitful this single subject has been as a source for composers. It opened with Wagner's Faust Overture and ended with Liszt's Faust Symphony, both inspired by Goethe's poetic drama. In between came another Goethe setting, Brahms's Alto Rhapsody.This was the evening's highlight. Written as a bizarrely inappropria...

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