Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe use of period instruments may not revolutionise the performance of late romantic orchestral music in the way it has the baroque and classical repertory over the last 30 years, but it is still fascinating to hear such music played by the forces that composers of the era would have taken for granted. In Vladimir Jurowski's programme with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, works by Wagner, Mahler and Liszt were viewed through that historical prism, with the OA...
Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe use of period instruments may not revolutionise the performance of late romantic orchestral music in the way it has the baroque and classic... more info