LSO/Pappano - review

Barbican, LondonAntonio Pappano's latest concert with the London Symphony Orchestra will probably be remembered as being an evening of two violinists. One was Midori, soloist in Bruch's First Violin Concerto. But the other works in the programme – Ligeti's Concert Românesc and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade – also contain formidable solos for the instrument, and the evening consequently made a bit of a star of the orchestra's leader, Roman Simovic.This was the LSO's second performance ...

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