Prom 75: VPO/Haitink – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Vienna Philharmonic's second Prom closed with Richard Strauss's An Alpine Symphony, a work with which its conductor, Bernard Haitink, has long been associated. His championing of the piece in the 1980s did much to change then-prevalent views that it was grandiloquent and otiose. More recently, with the work now a regular part of the repertory, he's conducted it on several occasions at the Barbican, and his interpretation has become more refined and, in some respects,...

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