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Fiction-laden history, musical truth: Ashkenazy brings Shostakovich to Battleship Potemkin

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“history, filmmaking and music, all rolled together into a single experience”
Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 12 October 2017
Shostakovich, Symphonic excerpts to accompany a live screening of Battleship Potemkin
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor
Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia
*****
A Resurrection for the ages: Kent Nagano conducts the Philharmonia
*****
A brilliant UK premiere of John Adams’ After the Fall
****1
Renes replaces Runnicles in a remarkable Philharmonia Bruckner 8
****1
Karpman’s opera Balls tells a great story, but overshoots the line
**111
Giltburg and Foster celebrate the Philharmonia’s 80th birthday
****1
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