Sapporo SO/Otaka – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Sapporo Symphony Orchestra's London date had been in the schedule long before Japan's earthquake in March. But the tsunami transformed what had been a celebratory 50th birthday visit for the Hokkaido-based orchestra into a benefit concert. Music making, like much else in Japan, is only slowly getting going again. This was inevitably an emotionally charged evening that drew some high-octane playing, especially in Shostakovich's appropriately indomitable Fifth Sympho...

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