OAE/Jurowski | Classical review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAfter a slow start, the classical music year is back to top speed. Daniel Barenboim has ­arrived with the Berlin Staatskapelle and the New York Phil, armed with their ­secret weapon, is hot on their tail. Not the best ­moment, perhaps, for a local period-instrument orchestra whose name only the most devoted of its devotees bother to ­pronounce in full to begin yet another Beethoven symphony cycle. But on the strength of the opening concert under Vladimir �...

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