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The joy of decibels: Rattle and the LSO welcome audiences back to the Barbican

By Mark Pullinger, 18 May 2021
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“how glorious to hear an orchestra 'unfiltered', to feel the music’s reverberation”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 18 May 2021
Programme
Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34
Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80
Dvořák, 8 Slavonic Dances, Op.46
Performers
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, 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.