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...By contrast, Béjart’s Mahler-inspired Song of a Wayfarer is highly introspective....
...Bookended by Mahler (director Riccardo Chailly will open festivities with the Third Symphony, while Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla closes it with the Resurrection Symphony), the line-up also includes impressive guest...
...★★★★☆ Later that day, Laura Bowler’s music-theatre piece Houses Slide arrived in Aldeburgh, following its London premiere last year....
...Set to Mahler, it is an exercise in control and serene partnering; dressed in blue unitards, Maëva Cotton and Alessio Passaquindici seemed to swim quietly through space....
...From Halil’s grieving emptiness to the Adagio from Mahler’s Symphony No.10 was but a small step....
...Two of them, Boule Mpanya and Russell Tshiebua, are Congolese singers who memorably spin Mahler melodies into polyphonic material....
...“They have a sense of the spirit of the time, which is Mahler and company, and they have understood the peculiarity of Elgar’s own personality.” Barenboim may be slower but he has not lost his vigour....
...As the pair analyse Beethoven, Mahler and Bernstein the contrast in approach is evident: Ozawa is the professional reeling off anecdotes from the music world; Murakami the amateur armed with encyclopedic...
...Weiss’s latest double bill sets a British comedy (The Tempest) and a French tragedy (Phaedra) to Mahler symphonies....
...There were saving graces: Laura Hecquet, recently promoted to first soloist, was a sight for sore eyes, full of solemn purpose....
...The BBC SSO is especially strong in this department, as their Mahler in last week’s BBC Prom showed....
...Castings bring the happy partnerings of Laura Morera with Muntagirov and Natalya Osipova with Steven McRae....
...Instead, Norman felt drawn to French, German and Austrian music — to Schubert and Mahler, and to less obvious roles, including Poulenc’s Madame Lidoine, Strauss’s Ariadne, Wagner’s Sieglinde....
...” … In 1983, when he was just 25, Salonen was asked to replace the eminent American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas at short notice and conducted the Philharmonia in a dazzling performance of Mahler’s...
...Patient, unhurried musicality greets Mahler’s slow but radical mood shifts....
...Here, for its last outing, Marthaler – perhaps mindful of mixed reviews in the past – has left directing duties to the young Anna-Sophie Mahler....
...And the 2012 New Moves series will conclude with Klezmahler, an event that will pair the sounds of klezmer with Mahler’s First Symphony – known for its use of Yiddish folk themes – before slipping into a...
...“My most precious memories are of listening to Mahler being played on speakers around the pool with house guests such as Sir Anthony Caro, Arman and Frank Stella....
...A prolific choreographer, he has tackled serious, difficult subjects with the Hamburg Ballet, from entire symphonies (in Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, for instance) to Shakespeare plays....
...Presented by the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis) and Berkeley Repertory Theatre (California), Kushner’s subject matters include the former US first lady Laura Bush reading The Brothers Karamazov to the ghosts...
...Of note too was Laura O’Malley, who is an artist of notable interpretative intensity as the “second” female lead....
...Perched on an upstairs terrace, Laura Claycomb’s celestial Mater Gloriosa filled the gaping space with an irresistible appeal for transcendence....
...As for Laura Claycomb’s soprano in the finale of Mahler’s Fourth, it was pretty but not sufficiently so to be memorable. Tel +44 (0)20 7638 8891...
...Mahler’s music is joined-up in the classical sense, yet seems to lie on the cusp of Armageddon. 8....
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