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RLPO/Petrenko
Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Vasily Petrenko proves himself a dynamically individual Mahlerian. He does not stand apart from a work, perfecting its overall shape, but gets right inside it, writes Alfred Hickling -
Phaedra
Barbican, London
Christian Lehnert's treatment of Phaedra is self-consciously oblique and overflowing with contrived imagery. Consequently, the raw, tragic core of the story becomes obscured, writes Andrew Clements