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The tongs and the bones: Vivid Mendelssohn from Gardiner and the LSO

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“Resiny double basses skittered in Puck’s Scherzo”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 16 February 2016
Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 1 in C minor, Op.11
Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture, Op.21
Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61 (Incidental Music) (Excerpts)
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor
Monteverdi Choir
Jessica Cale, Soprano
Charlotte Ashley, Soprano
Sarah Denbee, Mezzo-soprano
Rebecca Hardwick, Soprano
Ceri-Lyn Cissone, Actor
Frankie Wakefield, Actor
Alexander Knox, Actor
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A curious evening from Noseda, Kopatchinskaja and the LSO
***11
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****1
Rattle and the LSO sell a travel package to Hungary and Spain
****1
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