LSO/Roth – review

Barbican, LondonThe subject of François-Xavier Roth's concert with the London Symphony Orchestra was the relationship between Liszt and Berlioz. The two composers were friends, drawn together by a shared sense of high Romantic iconoclasm. In 1833, Liszt bailed out the impoverished Berlioz by performing a piano transcription of the Symphonie Fantastique, which did much to restore both the latter's fortunes and his symphony's.Roth, a maverick himself, prefaced the Fantastique with Liszt's Mazeppa...

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