While the Frank Gehry's sets were pleasingly textural and undeniably successful as works of abstract sculpture, it was apparent that director Peter Sellars would have been just as happy without them.

Turangalîla es un homenaje a las tradiciones del poema sinfónico, rotas por la II Guerra Mundial, y un canto gozoso a la difícil conquista de la paz y la libertad.Como toda buena creación crepuscular, acierta a aplicar una retórica actualizada a los discursos de un pasado que ya no volverá.

If the Symphony No.7 finale was unreservedly triumphant in tone, it was the emotional ambiguities of the earlier movements – and of Mr Widmann’s songs – that made the evening so captivating

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Londres en manos de Sir Simon Rattle era un ser vivo, casi un personaje más, inquieta e inquietante.La partitura está plagada de pequeñas intervenciones cuasi solistas, y todas sonaban perfectamente engarzadas en ese gran tapiz que Rattle tejía pasando de lo puramente insinuante, a representar en sonido la horrible cacofonía que suena en la mente de Wozzeck, para mostrar a continuación la más pura delicadeza cuando aparecía el hijo de los dos protagonistas

Although Sir David McVicar’s staging provided the evening with a concentrated vision of the drama, and Sir Simon Rattle’s musical direction was unfailingly genial, the production succeeded primarily on the strength of the principal singers, whose delight in the music remained palpable throughout the evening

In prefacing the Ligeti's Requiem with works of absurd humour and pastoral grace, the concert had been able to capture some of the contradictions of a century formed from equal parts greatness and horror, and one in which unpredictability was the only constant