Puppet master: Dutoit conjures superb playing from the RPO

Von Mark Pullinger, 30 März 2016

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“one sensed Nijinsky in his clown costume, angrily shaking his fists”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Festival Hall, London, am 29 März 2016

Respighi, Fontane di Roma (Brunnen von Rom)

Dvořák, Cellokonzert in h-Moll, Op.104

Casals, El cant dels Ocells (Song of the Birds)

Strawinsky, Petruschka

Charles Dutoit, Musikalische Leitung

Gautier Capuçon, Cello

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

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