Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko review – forensic precision and high-definition lines

Usher Hall, EdinburghPetrenko conducted a dauntless account of Sibelius’s First Symphony, but iffy programming wasted this concert’s second half The stony expression on Vasily Petrenko’s face spoke volumes. He had just conducted the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in a dauntless account of Sibelius’s First Symphony, every theme unfolded with steel-clad logic. The Scherzo had been acrid, the Andante haunted and soul-searching. The closing bars were so weighty, so intensely loa