LPO/Vladimir Jurowski – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMatthias Pintscher's new violin concerto Ma'reh received its premiere in Lucerne a fortnight ago. Soloist Julia Fischer, conductor Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic repeated it in this Festival Hall programme otherwise themed around the Greek titan Prometheus.Ma'reh is a Hebrew word meaning face or sign; the 40-year-old German composer was thinking of "the aura of a face, a beautiful vision". Some of the sounds in this nearly 25-minute-long movement are in...

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