Spira Mirabilis – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonSpira Mirabilis is a new European chamber orchestra that does things differently. They play without a conductor, to begin with. In this they are by no means alone, but their repertoire is associated with ideas of strong interpretation, which we have come to believe only a conductor can impose. They only play one work per concert – in this case Beethoven's Eroica – though they talk to the audience, before and after the performance, about how they have learned to lo...

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