Philharmonia/Honeck/Ax review – principal conductor designate gives a scorching taste of things to come

Royal Festival Hall, LondonWith this programme of Strauss (Johann II and Richard) and Mozart – and Emanuel Ax the deft and lucid soloist – Manfred Honeck, who joins as principal conductor in 2028, gave an exciting statement of intent‘I am a man of tradition,” Manfred Honeck, the Philharmonia’s new principal conductor designate, declared earlier this week in rehearsals. But for…