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Isabelle Faust shines, Nelsons and the Gewandhaus disappoint at the BBC Proms

Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestera
© BBC | Chris Christodoulou
Isabelle Faust, Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
© BBC | Chris Christodoulou
The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
© BBC | Chris Christodoulou
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“all that brio wasn’t matched by the orchestra, which continued at the same restrained quality”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 26 August 2025
Pärt, Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Dvořák, Violin Concerto in A minor, Op.53
Matteis, Fantasia in A minor for solo violin
Sibelius, Symphony no. 2 in D major, Op.43
Isabelle Faust, Violin
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Conductor
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Oper Leipzig
****1
Total Shostakovich in Leipzig
*****
Star conductor: Blomstedt returns to the Leipzig Gewandhaus
*****
Spellbinding Parsifal caps Oper Leipzig's massive Wagner 22 Festival
****1
Sublime Strauss from Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester
****1
Lohengrin as chamber opera in Patrick Bialdyga's Leipzig production
*****
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