The History of D Johann Faustus | Classical review

Royal Festival HallBetween Two Worlds, the London Philharmonic's Schnittke festival, is very much a pet project of the orchestra's music director Vladimir Jurowski. The spine of its programme is the series of four orchestral concerts Jurowski is conducting. It's not all Schnittke, though: the opening concert began with disappointingly routine performances of Haydn's Symphony No 22 and the Prelude and Good Friday Music from Wagner's Parsifal before the main event – the UK premiere of Schni...

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