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LPO/Alsop | Classical review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMarin Alsop's latest concert with the London Philharmonic prefaced GÃ³recki's Third Symphony with UK premieres of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Glass. Turnage's Texan Tenebrae draws its material from Anna Nicole, his forthcoming opera about the life and drug-related death of Anna Nicole Smith. The piece is notable for its hallucinatory quality and unvarying shrillness. A distorted phrase from Mahler's Kindertotenlieder weaves through a tangle of clanging b...

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21:30 on April 20 2010

LPO/Alsop | Classical review

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonMarin Alsop's latest concert with the London Philharmonic prefaced GÃ³recki's Third Symphony with UK premieres of works by Mark-Anthony Turna... more info