Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Simon Rattle – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonFor a musician who is said to have turned his back on Britain, Simon Rattle has been around the old place rather a lot in 2011. Not that there was a great deal of effort required for Rattle to reconnect with the musicians of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with whom he has worked regularly for nearly a quarter of a century now. That continuing rapport was immediately and sustainedly obvious in this delightful Haydn and Mozart concert, and all without any of ...

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