Brahms’ Last Concert review – OAE and Emelyanychev take audience back to 1897
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThis recreation of the final concert that the composer attended – only weeks before his death aged 63 – featured his fourth symphony, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and Haydn’s symphony no 73.Every period-instrument outfit has its shtick – its own version of what “historically informed performance” might mean. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment plays music from an increasingly generous historical tranche (Stravinsky beckons next season) but always on instruments dating from the same period as the…
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