In Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman, Don Giovanni finds himself in hell, chatting to the sentient Statue that dragged him to his doom. ‘It sounds rather flat without my trombones,’ admits the Statue, conceding that once you remove the genius of Mozart from the mix, you’re left with a trite (if titillating) morality tale. You
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In Bartók and Chausson, violinist Isabelle Faust was elegant and expressive, and conductor Duncan Ward brought orchestral colour and focus to orchestral showpieces by Debussy and Janáček