CONCERT REVIEW | Wagner, Schoenberg, & Bruckner | Philharmonia Orchestra/Salonen | Royal Festival Hall, London | "Fierce, loud, yet microscopically exact, there was little doubt of meticulousness"

United Kingdom: Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (Conductor). Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 30 September 2018.

Wagner, Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod

Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for orchestra, Op.4

Bruckner, Symphony no. 7 in E major, WAB 107

 

Esa-Pekka Salonen, © Clive Barda

 

It has become fashionable of late for Esa-Pekka Salonen to invite London audiences to explicitly late-Romantic programmes. After a successful concert of Webern, Mahler and Wagner in August at the BBC Proms, Salonen’s return to the Royal Festival Hall for the new Philharmonia season retained that very Austro-German spirit, this time via the traverse of Wagner, Schoenberg and Bruckner...

 

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[The article is published on the Bruckner Journal]

Young-Jin Hur

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