★★★★☆A good concert should take you out of yourself and change your surroundings and feelings. Then I climbed Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony and never looked back. To judge by a sudden red lighting effect, I even plunged into a crevasse filled with strawberry jam. The performance’s several lighting tricks seemed unnecessary in a work already famous for going over the top. Strauss’s notes and the London Symphony Orchestra’s luscious playing told us everything we needed to know about this philosophical travelogue, madly decorated with 15 offstage horns, two wind…

Source: The Times February 19, 2018 17:03 UTC