LSO/Pappano review – refinement, energy and drama

Barbican, London
An all-Liszt programme showed the best of the LSO, magnificent under Pappano, while soloist Alice Sara Ott played with thrilling accuracy and involvement Total Liszt was the title of Antonio Pappano’s latest concert with the London Symphony Orchestra, an exciting, thoughtfully programmed evening that placed careful emphasis on the innovatory qualities of Liszt’s music, the connoisseurship of art and literature that so often fired his imagination, and his influence on