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BBCSSO/Runnicles review – resplendent recounting of Mahler’s fratricidal fairytale - AOL (opens the original)
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When Sigmund Freud met Gustav Mahler in 1910, he suggested that, following a childhood trauma, “the conjunction of high tragedy and light amusement was inextricably fixed in Mahler’s mind”. Freud was famously uninterested in music, but had he known Das Klagende Lied, he would have found ample supporting evidence for his diagnosis. Composed in Mahler’s late teens and fusing opera, symphony, oratorio, lieder, part-song and even church music, the cantata collides comedy and tragedy at every turn –
BBCSSO/Canellakis review – electrifying trio of women unleash the horror in Strauss’s Elektra - AOL (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolan’s film The Odyssey carries a content warning for “strong violence and intense mythological horror”, but even its goriest scenes do not match the mythological horror Richard Strauss produced nearly 120 years earlier in Elektra, whose special effects are confined to the 111-piece orchestra. The heckelphones, basset horns and Wagner tubas Strauss adds to an already outsized band makes staging Elektra unfeasible for all but the best-resourced companies. But the extraordinary colour
The Song of Hiawatha review – Rafael Payare reveals the riches of Coleridge-Taylor’s hit cantata - AOL (opens the original)
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The Song of Hiawatha, Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s turn-of-the-century cantata trilogy, packed the Albert Hall for weeks on end between the wars, but it really shouldn’t work today. The unmistakably Victorian if charming score is the least of the difficulties. More problematic is the libretto: 800-plus lines of “Rum-ti Rum-ti Rum-ti Rum-ti” (trochaic tetrameter, to be technical) from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. More challenging still is a story that shows the Native American
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