CONCERT REVIEW | Bartók & Bruckner | London Symphony Orchestra/Rattle | Barbican, London | "the LSO weren’t only about precision and tonal splendours, but also purveyors of big ideas"

United Kingdom: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle (Conductor). Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 13 January 2019.

Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106

Bruckner, Symphony no. 6 in A major, WAB 106 (Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs Urtext)

Sir Simon Rattle, © Oliver Helbig (cropped)

Recently, a critic in Los Angeles implied a Bruckner symphony to be an acquired taste of German-speaking cultures. Go across a continent and jump over a pond onto non-German-speaking lands, because Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra beg to differ.

Read the full review on Bachtrack

[The article is published on the Bruckner Journal]

Young-Jin Hur

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