Nagano/Meier/OSM - review

Usher Hall, EdinburghFestival programming sometimes allows us to hear different – and contrasting – performances of the same work. So it has been in Edinburgh with Mahler's Rückert Lieder, played first by Bo Skovhus and Stefan Vladar at the Queen's Hall last Saturday, and now by Waltraud Meier, with Kent Nagano and his Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.Skovhus and Meier rank among the greats, so comparisons are pointless. They did, however, offer notably different experiences. The Rückert...

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