Robin Holloway on the unique orchestra layout that produces the Festspielhaus’s unique acoustic
There was no space in my report last month, on a first visit to the Bayreuth Festival, for what was in retrospect its most exciting quart d’heure, a privileged informal investigation of the unique orchestra layout that produces the Festspielhaus’s unique acoustic.
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