From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

…. These live recordings from the Barbican demonstrate Noseda’s tendency to go for a tight close-up when an individual player or section shines bright, and for a wider view when Shostakovich lapses into one of his mumbling equivocations and melancholic slumps. The 10th symphony loses a notch or two of tension in the finale and the recorded sound is constipated by the Barbican’s acoustic shortcomings. But the release gives us what we most crave right now — an experience, or at least a simulacrum — of live orchestral music in all its colours and frailties. You won’t be disappointed.

Read on here.

And here.

In The Critic.

En francais.

In Spanish.

In Czech.

More languages follow.

 

It’s called ‘Sabine and the 100 Men’ and it’s about a young woman who forms an orchestra with unemployed musicians.

Watch out for Yehudi’s warm-up routines and some super-rare footage of Ferenc Fricsay conducting the Berlin Philharmonic.

An unmissable treasure, totally new to Youtube.

 

In case you hadn’t seen this last year.