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Reviews
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The Guardian
The teeming, ultra-glamorous surface of Szymanowski’s opulent Third Symphony, The Song of the Night, maintained a sheeny iridescence that never felt overbright, even at the score’s hedonistic climaxes, while a structure that can seem aimless took flight and held to its airborne course. Toby Spence floated his clean-edged tenor over the gorgeous textures conjured by the orchestra and the London Symphony Chorus.
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Evening Standard
In the Variations on a Theme of Haydn he [Gergiev] struck gold in a superbly handled sequence of variations. The feather-light Mendelssohnian scherzo of the fifth was followed by a jaunty windband in the sixth, a gracefully lilting seventh and a spookily muted eighth before the St Anthony chorale emerged with dignity.
Cast & creative team
Characters
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ConductorValery Gergiev
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TenorToby Spence
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OrchestraLondon Symphony Orchestra
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ChorusLondon Symphony Chorus
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Chorus DirectorSimon Halsey
Team
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Johannes BrahmsComposer
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Karol SzymanowskiComposer