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Prom 59: Vintage wine: Blomstedt and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in splendid Beethoven

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 29 August 2016
Beethoven, Leonore Overture no. 2, Op.72a
Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major "Emperor", Op.73
Schubert, Impromptu no. 2 in E flat major, D.899
Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 in A major, Op.92
Beethoven, Egmont, Op.84: Overture
Sir András Schiff, Piano
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor
Isabelle Faust shines, Nelsons and the Gewandhaus disappoint
**111
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
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