CBSO/Rustioni review — a dream couple make sweet music
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
“[Siegfried Idyll]… it’s Wagner without the ego (for the most part), and the CBSO and conductor Daniele Rustioni enveloped us in a glow of sound, each phrase unfolding with tenderness. And that was the real theme of the concert: love in its many forms.
…[Brahms’s Fourth Symphony] is to his [Daniele Rustioni] mind about a love of music and humanity, and his take was suitably weighty… there was no doubting the CBSO and conductor’s passion. It was a love song in a minor key.”
The Times, Rebecca Franks