“a reminder that ecstasy need not be breathless”
Reviewed at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin on 3 May 2026
Programme
Mozart, Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550
Performers
Staatskapelle Berlin
Zubin Mehta, Conductor
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