Prom 21: CBSO/Nelsons – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIt took 17 minutes for Andris Nelsons to remind the audience why he is the most exciting conductor working in Britain today. Don Juan, Richard Strauss's early tone poem, is a work that regular concert-goers know backwards, and everyone else forwards. Yet so fresh was this performance by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (on their first and, sadly, only visit to the Proms this year) that one seemed to hear the work for the first time.Nelsons's pacing was immacula...

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