Hallé/Elder – review

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterMahler's Das Lied von der Erde is, it is generally agreed, a masterpiece. But the opening song is one of classical music's most notoriously difficult passages for performers, thanks to the torrential density of its orchestration, which can overwhelm even the loudest of heldentenors in the concert hall. Mahler never heard the work live. Would he have revised it, if he had? There are some who believe so, among them Mark Elder, who asked Colin Matthews to rescore the rel...

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