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Baroque intimacy and imperial splendour in the LPO's traversal of the four seasons

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“a collegiate performance rather than a showcase for a star virtuoso”
Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 24 November 2017
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons (Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione), Op.8 no. 1-4
Kabalevsky, Symphonic Poem: Vesna (Spring), Op.65
Glazunov, The Seasons
Marius Stravinsky, Conductor
Pieter Schoeman, Violin
Karabits and Szeps-Znaider carouse with the LPO
****1
Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO
****1
Ticciati and the LPO deliver epic Sibelius plus lively Wennäkoski
****1
Paavo Järvi marks his new LPO appointment in Tchaikovsky and Sibelius
*****
Canellakis, Mutter and the LPO at the Elbphilharmonie
****1
Phoenix Lands: the London Philharmonic blazes with energy
****1
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