Cantabile Mendelssohn and Schubert
Article by Hugh Canning from Operalogue
Rustioni makes his LSO debut, accompanying a dazzling Francesca Dego in Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
“An encouragingly full Barbican Hall attended to hear a programme designed to showcase Rustioni’s accomplishments in 19th century orchestral music from North of the Alps: Liszt’s symphonic poem Les Préludes, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Rustioni’s wife Francesca Dego as soloist, and Schubert’s ‘Great’ C major symphony. It came as a surprise to discover that Schubert’s masterpiece had not been programmed by the LSO for more than a decade.”
