Rattle and the LSO excel in Strauss and Wagner

By Mark Valencia, 28 May 2021

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“If Uncle Walt had included it in Fantasia they’d have slapped an X certificate on it.”

Reviewed at LSO St Lukes, London on 27 May 2021

Strauss R., Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (Der Bürger als Edelmann) suite, Op.60b

Wagner, arr. Stokowski, Love Music from Tristan und Isolde, Acts 2 & 3

Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.