Helen Grime & Mahler – The Times
I’ve never heard this orchestra play so quietly, as if on the threshold of extinction, nor this symphony evoke so many epochs of musical civilisation, from vibrato-less, quasi-Renaissance polyphony to the full flood of romanticism, and then on into remarkably prescient intimations of 20th-century dissonance and turmoil. The players looked exhausted by the end. Psychologically, so was I.
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