LSO/Pappano – review

Warwick Arts Centre, CoventryThere was an all-English, all 20th-century programme for Antonio Pappano's latest guest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, in which Elgar's First Symphony was the focus. It is always fascinating to hear a conductor tackle such a work for the first time, especially when it's someone like Pappano, who comes to it without any Elgarian baggage and treats the work as it is – one of the greatest of all late-Romantic symphonies.Not everything about the perform...

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