LPO/Jurowski – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonIn the latest instalment of the orchestra's ongoing Mahler cycle, the LPO's principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski slotted the discarded movement entitled Blumine (Flora) into a performance of Mahler's First Symphony that otherwise kept to the final text of the work. It's perfectly understandable that Mahler should have dropped the piece. His lover Natalie Bauer-Lechner was right when she described it as "sentimentally indulgent", though since Mahler would go on to inte...

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