Indefatigable high spirits in LSO programme of Romantic giants

Sir Antonio Pappano and Anna Lapwood with the London Symphony Orchestra

Yuja Wang and the LSO

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra

By Eleanor Knight, 17 September 2024

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“sparkling life with a rendition at once fabulously detailed and rip-roaringly exuberant”

Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 15 September 2024

Berlioz, Le Carnaval romain, Op.9

Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 1 in F sharp minor, Op.1

Mendelssohn, Song without words in F sharp minor, Op.67 no.2

Saint-Saëns, Symphony no. 3 in C minor "Organ Symphony", Op.78

Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor

London Symphony Orchestra

Yuja Wang, Piano

Anna Lapwood, Organ

Denis Kozhukhin: captivating storytelling with the London Symphony

Clare Varney, 1st May

At the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO are joined by Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin to plunge into the depths of despair in Bernstein’s melancholic The Age of Anxiety.

***11

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Pappano and the LSO: a thrilling collision between heaven and hell

Charlotte Gardner, 16th April

Vilde Frang joins Sir Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican for transcendent Korngold alongside darker fare.

****1

Han Kang’s The White Book takes on a compelling new life

Peter Quantrill, 5th March

At the Barbican, Laura Bowler's new work for Barbara Hannigan translates Han Kang's novel into a soundscape of icy stillness

****1

A curious evening from Noseda, Kopatchinskaja and the LSO

Mark Valencia, 26th February

Good, bad, but never ugly, a curious evening unfolds at the Barbican, inspired at times, ill-judged in places.

***11

Borodin steps into the symphonic limelight: Noseda and the LSO

Mark Pullinger, 15th February

Seong-Jin Cho continues his Artist Portrait series with the LSO by performing Chopin's poetic Second Piano Concerto.

****1

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.

Indefatigable high spirits in Pappano’s LSO programme of Romantic giants