RPO/Nézet-Séguin | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonYannick Nézet-Séguin has big shoes to fill at the Rotterdam Philharmonic, where he took over from Valery Gergiev in 2008. His first Prom at the orchestra's helm was not the sensation some might have hoped for; but then Gergiev has perhaps built a solid rather than sensational orchestra, and there was still enough evidence of why the Philadelphia Orchestra has snaffled the young Canadian up as its next music director.Wagner's overture to Tannhäuser was very much a micr...

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