Philharmonia/Dohnányi review – lithe, passionate playing

Royal Festival Hall, London
Christoph von Dohnányi can really energise a score, and brought great vitality to the orchestra’s season-closing programme of Bartók, Mozart and BeethovenReturning to the orchestra whose principal conductor he was for a decade (he is now its honorary conductor for life), Christoph von Dohnányi brought the Philharmonia’s London season to an end with this programme of Bartók, Mozart and Beethoven.
After the interval came a grand interpretation of Bee