Royal Festival Hall, LondonOf all the Mahler cycles that have proliferated for this and last year's anniversaries, the London Philharmonic's has been, by a long way, the most intelligent and revealing. Rather than a dutiful progress through the symphonies, the LPO series has placed Mahler's achievement in a much broader context, with revivals of his arrangements and reorchestrations of other composers, and by showing how his music influenced subsequent generations.Vladimir Jurowski's latest cont...
Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonOf all the Mahler cycles that have proliferated for this and last year's anniversaries, the London Philharmonic's has been, by a long way, the ... more info