LPO/Yannick Nézet-Séguin – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonYannick Nézet-Séguin is going from strength to strength. His latest concert with the London Philharmonic was a startling affair, chiefly notable for the shamelessness and wildness he brought to Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and La Mort de Cléopâtre – qualities integral to his music, if sometimes overlooked.The Fantastique represents such a seismic shift in musical consciousness that we forget it was conceived as a morbid, if flagrant exercise in self-revelation...

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