Werk: Symphonie in

Daniele Gatti stellt sich der Herausforderung, Brahms’ Dritte Symphonie in Berlin zu dirigieren – und gewinnt.

Were we to celebrate a great artist fifty years after his death with three misbegotten attempts at a form he never understood?

Deeply moving and often terrifyingly dark, Gergiev and the Mariinsky took us on a devastating ride towards the abyss which eventually left me grabbing for a rope.