LSO/Gergiev/Mutter – review

Barbican, LondonValery Gergiev's latest concert with the London Symphony Orchestra marked the start of Anne-Sophie Mutter's residency with the orchestra, as well as forming an 80th birthday tribute to the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Mutter played In Tempus Praesens, a one-movement violin concerto Gubaidulina wrote for her in 2007. It's a big work that questions the form. Gubaidulina argues that the idea of the heroic clashes between soloist and orchestra that once characterised the class...

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