Haitink/ London Symphony Orchestra
Barbican, 14th March 2019
When it’s a significant birthday, why limit the celebrations to just one day? Or even one city? Bernard Haitink’s 90th birthday bash with the London Symphony Orchestra continued from Sunday’s Austrian pairing of Mozart and Bruckner with a jaunt into Bohemia’s woods and fields. Dvořák’s pastoral Violin Concerto gave way to the rustic delights of the most amiable of Mahler’s Wunderhorn symphonies, the Fourth. It’s a programme they take to Paris on Monday before repeating it again at the Barbican on Thursday. Haitink and the LSO like to party hard.
Bernard Haitink
© Mark Allan | Barbican
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