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CONCERT REVIEW | Mozart & Bruckner | London Symphony Orchestra/Fellner & Haitink | Barbican, London | "Haitink’s kind of wisdom and insight doesn’t come easily"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Schumann, Beethoven, Bartok, & Mendelssohn | London Symphony Orchestra/Anderszewski & Gardiner | Barbican, London | "the brass and timpani propelled the intensely melodic narrative of the first movement"

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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"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Brahms, Debussy, & Enescu | London Symphony Orchestra/Kavakos & Rattle | Barbican, London | "it was the very contrast between the attitudes of Rattle and Kavakos that deemed the collaboration momentous"

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

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CONCERT REVIEW | Mussorgsky, Szymanowski, & Tchaikovsky | London Symphony Orchestra/Szeps-Znaider & Jordan | Barbican, London | "It was a masterclass display of contrasts and narrative"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Shostakovich | London Symphony Orchestra/Benedetti & Noseda | Barbican, London | "all any Shostakovich enthusiast could have wished for, full of zest and a smirk"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Giguère, Elgar, & Sibelius | London Symphony Orchestra/Müller-Schott & Mälkki| Barbican, London | "The ever-so-musical Müller-Schott had an undeniably tonal beauty and every percussive element was kept with lyrical allure"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Schumann | London Symphony Orchestra/Faust & Gardiner | Barbican, London | "The woodwinds gliding through the lean, lyrical strings were special, yet the highlights were in the clarity of the contrapuntal and chorale-like sections of the Finale, where Gardiner rose to his credential as early music specialist"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Schumann & Berlioz | London Symphony Orchestra/Hallenberg & Gardiner | Barbican, London | "Under Gardiner’s leadership, the LSO have rediscovered a compelling language"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Schubert, Mahler, etc. | London Symphony Orchestra/Kožená & Rattle | Barbican, London | "Rattle’s sensitivity proved to be a judicious outcome given the inward nature of these works"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Mozart & Tchaikovsky | London Symphony Orchestra/Znaider | Barbican, London | "The mellifluous warmth evoked was as poignant as it was beautiful"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Sibelius & Hillborg | BBC Symphony Orchestra/Batiashvili & Oramo | Barbican, London | "By means of sheer alertness of playing and orchestral balance, the scintillating pulse underlying the outward chaste was outlined"

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CONCERT REVIEW | Ruders, Shostakovich, & R. Strauss | BBC Symphony Orchestra/Abduraimov, Thomas, & Søndergård | Barbican, London | "...things were eventually held together under the wise baton of Søndergård"