LPO/Saraste/Lupu | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonCult Romanian pianist Radu Lupu has always tended to pack houses and the Festival Hall was predictably heaving for his performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with the London Philharmonic and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. In the event, it proved not to be quite the great occasion one hoped for: the result, one suspects, of differences in temperament and approach between the two men. Both are remarkable artists, but the sense of probing, serene wisdom that Lupu generates in...

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