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BBCSSO/Runnicles review â resplendent recounting of Mahlerâs fratricidal fairytale (opens the original)
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Usher Hall, EdinburghColliding complex and contrasting moods, Mahlerâs Das Klagende Lied was rendered with clarity and conviction When Sigmund Freud met Gustav Mahler in 1910, he suggested that, following a childhood trauma, âthe conjunction of high tragedy and light amusement was inextricably fixed in Mahlerâs mindâ. 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 Mahlerâs late t
BBCSSO/Canellakis review â electrifying trio of women unleash the horror in Straussâs Elektra (opens the original)
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Usher Hall, EdinburghMaking the most of a huge orchestra, conductor Karina Canellakis treated the dissonant score with relish, but the evening belonged to the singers, with even the tiniest role superbly realised Christopher Nolanâs film The Odyssey carries a content warning for âstrong violence and intense mythological horrorâ, 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 t
The Song of Hiawatha review â Rafael Payare reveals the riches of Coleridge-Taylorâs hit cantata (opens the original)
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Usher Hall, EdinburghFestival director Nicola Benedettiâs bold programming of these once-popular Victorian cantatas paid off with a crisp chorus and strong soloists tautly conducted The Song of Hiawatha, Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylorâs turn-of-the-century cantata trilogy, packed the Albert Hall for weeks on end between the wars, but it really shouldnât work today. The unmistakably Victorian if charming score is the least of the difficulties. More problematic is the librett
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