Mark has worked in arts journalism for more than thirty years, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera, music and musical theatre. Mark also writes for Musical America as opera correspondent for Europe and the UK.
The musicians of MusicAeterna were impassioned, engaged and energised into a single force in this performance of Verdi's Requiem at the Aix Easter Festival.
The pairing of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony with the Violin Concerto of Brahms felt conspicuously like a calling card from an orchestra that sees itself as a contender for wider recognition, on this showing with good reason.
