The Critics. . .Divided

Not for the first time (and I'm sure it wont be the last) I have to wonder whether some critics attended (or listened to) the same performance I did:

"In Prom 9 Barry Douglas had his work cut out as soloist in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No 1, because Valery Gergiev conducted the London Symphony Orchestra as if on tranquillisers, but Douglas finally succeeded in injecting some authentic Brahmsian passion. Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass benefited from a volcanic performance by the London Symphony Chorus."

[Michael Church, the Independent]

(See below, and later, above.)