LSO/Hannigan review - season opens with haunting Vivier and superb Strauss

Barbican, LondonThe London Symphony Orchestra's associate artist Barbara Hannigan conducted a programme that mixed mainstream repertoire by Haydn and Strauss with less familiar music from the second half of the 20th century. With the departure of Simon Rattle, and Antonio Pappano not due to succeed him as chief conductor until this time next year, 2023-24 will be an interregnum for the London Symphony Orchestra. So it was the orchestra's associate artist Barbara Hannigan who conducted the openin...