The Critic's Chair for Sunday 17 November 2013
The Critic's Chair for 17 November 2013
In this week’s The Critic’s Chair, Erica Challis reviews Gustavo Dudamel’s latest, conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in a disc of Richard Strauss tone poems, and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra’s period instrument performances of early Schubert symphonies under Pablo Heras-Casado. There’s a live recording of Szymanowski’s first two symphonies by the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra perform of some of Jánaček’s mature works including the famous Sinfonietta.