Rog plays it from the heart for the ambassadors Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg ** Barbican

From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: May 5, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

THEIR Excellencies, the ambassadors of the 41 democracies (Yugoslavia is a dictatorship and ineligible) which now make up the Council of Europe filled the stalls at last night's concert given by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg to celebrate the Council's 50th birthday. Today they shake hands with the Queen.

The conductor Jan Latham-Koenig kept the music flowing, and Poulenc's orchestral suite, Les animaux modeles, had bright, optimistic strings and clarion brasses depicting a fresh and dewy dawn.

The French pianist Pascal Roge was insulted to find a copy of Cesar Franck's Symphonic ...

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