Proms 16 & 17: CBSO/Nelsons; SCO/Boyd | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonTaking a break from the Bayreuth festival, where he is conducting the new Lohengrin, Andris Nelsons came to the Proms with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Wagner, in the shape of the Rienzi overture. It's the piece with which he opened his official tenure as the ensemble's music director two years ago, but he makes more of it than a calling card; more, too, than the rabble-rouser it can descend into in lesser hands. Flawlessly presented here, its thematic m...

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