OAE/Gaffigan | Classical review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonYou can programme a dream concert series as far in advance as you like, but you can never ensure it actually happens. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's Beethoven cycle had already lost Charles Mackerras from last month's instalment; this final concert found the orchestra again looking for a stand-in conductor. Because the absentee this time was Leonidas Kavakos, who was to have played the Violin Concerto as well as directing the Pastoral Symphony, this meant...

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