NOT many concerts of the light classics end with the irrepressible conductor dancing to YMCA and doing some Gangnam Style dancing.
NOT many concerts of the light classics end with the irrepressible conductor dancing to YMCA and doing some Gangnam Style dancing.
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Russell Leadbetter
Then again, not every light classics concert is conducted by Rainer Hersch.
Hersch, for the uninitiated, is a comedian, conductor and musician who has performed at the Edinburgh Festival and London's South Bank, and on television and radio, doing everything from stand-up comedy to a Victor Borge tribute. He is now conducting the Johann Strauss Orchestra, accompanied by the Strauss dancers in period costume and soprano Charlotte Ellett, in an entertaining show featuring works by Strauss but also Vittorio Monti (Csárdás, his best-known composition), Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow) and Tchaikovsky (Eugene Onegin). Choreography and direction are by Glasgow-born Alex Worrall.
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