LSO/Davis – review

Barbican, LondonThe centrepiece of Colin Davis's latest LSO concert was a performance of the Four Last Songs that was at once magisterial and at times almost intolerably moving. Strauss is probably not the first composer who springs to mind when Davis's name is mentioned. But there is something deeply humane, even humanist, in his late work that sits comfortably with Davis's ethos as a conductor: he captures wonderfully the Straussian sense of beauty seen through the eyes of experienced contentm...

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