CONCERT REVIEW | Kodály, MacMillan, & Shostakovich | London Symphony Orchestra/Moore & Noseda | Barbican, London | "Expressively immediate and with unreserved passion"

United Kingdom: London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Moore (Trombone), & Gianandrea Noseda (Conductor). Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 1 November 2018.

Kodály, Dances of Galánta

MacMillan, Trombone Concerto

Shostakovich, Symphony no. 4 in C minor, Op.43
 

Gianandrea Noseda, © Steve Sherman

“It’s important to go back to our origins,” says Gianandrea Noseda, in introducing his London Symphony Orchestra season. Taking his words at face value, there is an unmistakable scent of Italy in Noseda’s conducting. Expressively immediate and with unreserved passion, Noseda’s personality lies also in his ability to bring an orchestra together into a singular force, obliging the audience to a show of contrasts and forward thrust.

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Young-Jin Hur

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