Bournemouth SO/Alsop – review

Lighthouse, PooleMarin Alsop's annual guest appearances with the Bournemouth Symphony, the orchestra that she headed between 2002 and 2008, are becoming special occasions in Poole, her rapport with the audience there seeming as close as ever. For her latest visit Alsop brought Mahler, not a composer she conducted often during her tenure there. Das Lied von der Erde featured Paul Nilon (a late replacement for Paul Groves, who was ill) and Sarah Connolly as soloists, and was prefaced with a brisk,...

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