Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe youth moniker now laid to rest, the garish jackets left in the drawer together with the grandstanding encores, Dudamel and the Simón Bolívars wore white tie and tails for this first concert of their Southbank residency. Performing two of the orchestral works with which Beethoven redefined the idea of music as an art, here was a grown-up orchestra offering themselves for comparison with the world's best.Yet for all that, the orchestra remains incomparable simply b...

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