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Could this be LA Phil’s saviour?

Could this be LA Phil’s saviour?

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Four months ago, I wrote about one of the least satisfying Shostakovich records I have ever heard, a performance where the conductor, a hyped young Finn, skied across the musical surface without penetration or strategic concept. The gloom that overwhelmed me at the onset of a full cycle of symphonies from this unprepared interpreter has since been mitigated slightly by the emergence of a parallel cycle from a Finnish compatriot…

Read on here.

And here.

En francais ici.

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