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Rouvali and the Philharmonia glisten like quartz in American smorgasbord

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“Rouvali was neat and compact in this distinctly neoclassical work”
Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 26 October 2020
Copland, Appalachian Spring
Price, Dances in the Canebrakes
Reich, Music for pieces of wood
Stravinsky, Concerto in E flat major for chamber orchestra "Dumbarton Oaks"
Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Conductor
Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia
*****
A Resurrection for the ages: Kent Nagano conducts the Philharmonia
*****
A brilliant UK premiere of John Adams’ After the Fall
****1
Renes replaces Runnicles in a remarkable Philharmonia Bruckner 8
****1
Karpman’s opera Balls tells a great story, but overshoots the line
**111
Giltburg and Foster celebrate the Philharmonia’s 80th birthday
****1
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