Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Chailly " Barbican
There's an old conductor's adage which suggests that the only way safe to start Strauss' Don Juan is to start before the applause has died " that way no one hears any imperfections in the upward rush of strings. Remembering those words made me smile as Riccardo Chailly and his magnificent Leipzig orchestra lept as one from the starting blocks, stretching every sinew of Strauss' youthful tone poem as if the imperative…