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Icy Sibelius, savage Stravinsky: Klaus Mäkelä makes an remarkable LSO debut

Klaus Mäkelä and the London Symphony Orchestra
© LSO | Mark Allan
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
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Benjamin Gilmore and Andrej Power
© LSO | Mark Allan
By Mark Pullinger, 11 November 2024
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“Mäkelä finding his inner Bernstein with hip swivels and scything baton slashes”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 10 November 2024
Programme
Sibelius, Tapiola, Op.112
Prokofiev, Violin Concerto no. 2 in G minor, Op.63
Spohr, Duo Concertante, Op.39 no.1 (Larghetto)
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Performers
Andrej Power, Violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Klaus Mäkelä, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
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.