LPO/Masur Louis Lortie … From the New World

Royal Festival Hall, London: Since he stepped down as Principal Conductor (and seemingly without the honorary titles afforded him in Paris, Leipzig and New York), Kurt Masur’s visits to the London Philharmonic have been few and far between. But, absence makes the heart grow fonder, it is said, and the LPO played with real devotion for Masur on this fleeting glimpse of him.