LSO/Davis/Uchida – review

Barbican, LondonCarl Nielsen, the musical pride of Denmark, has never had a UK champion persuasive enough to lift his works – bar his Fourth and perhaps Fifth Symphonies – into the repertoire. Until now, that is: it's only a shame that Colin Davis has come to them so late. Still, it was invigorating to hear how much dynamism could be imparted to the composer's youthful First Symphony by a conductor a week past his 84th birthday, directing from a swivel chair.It helped that the London Symph...

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