Pappano’s energy emphasised every accent, every syncopation, and kept an LSO on top form out of the mud. Solos were all the more valuable because rare: first viola Eivind Ringstad made strange, jazzy ...

the LSO and Sir Antonio Pappano at the Barbican last night, it’s hard to imagine what. It opens with a fanfare: not from the Angel Gabriel, but from that original trumpeter, the elephant.