LSO/Simon Rattle review – compelling conductor delivers full sonic spectrum

Barbican, London
Already on his third LSO outing of this season, the orchestra’s music director-in-waiting offered work that was anguished, imposing and apocalyptic

It is a year and a half before Simon Rattle officially takes over as music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, but it is beginning to feel as though he has already moved in at the Barbican. This Messiaen and Bruckner programme came at the end of a short European tour with the LSO and marked Rattle’s third substantial appearance with the orchestra this season – more than some music directors manage when they are already in post.

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