Liszt: LSO/ Pappano ****
Barbican, 26th November 2017
In all honesty, Goethe could have been referring to Liszt’s Faust Symphony which – at around seventy minutes – can feel like a very long work of art indeed. It formed the bloated climax of a demonic date with the Grim Reaper, who loomed large over Sir Antonio Pappano’s “Total Liszt” programme with the LSO. The Mephistophelean symphony followed hot on the sulphurous heels of Liszt’s Totentanz, given a scorching rendition by Alice Sara Ott.
Alice Sara Ott
© Jonas Becker
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