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BerlinSemele
Handel: Semele
George Petrou; Barrie Kosky; Komische Oper Berlin; Natacha Le Guen de Kerneizon; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti; Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin
GatesheadBeethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Tjøgersen, Beethoven
Royal Northern Sinfonia; Dinis Sousa; Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha; Alice Coote; Laurence Kilsby; Matthew Rose
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In Mears’ bleak Royal Opera Semele, Pretty Yende stands out
Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful.
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Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the LSO with more Mahler, this time the mighty Resurrection Symphony which finds the conductor in glowing form.
Alice Coote owns Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder at the BBC Proms
Alice Coote imbues every word of Mahler’s deeply affecting song-cycle with expressive intensity. Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra struggle to match that achievement in Brahms and Schoenberg.
A dispiriting Mahler 3 from MTT and the LSO
Sometimes you just wish that circumstances had been different, fate kinder. Michael Tilson Thomas with the London Symphony Orchestra was not in full control of Mahler's mighty Third Symphony.
Wilson the Wizard brings magic to The Planets in Edinburgh
John Wilson brings the best out of both Holst's music and the players of the RSNO, though Alice Coote fails to hit the heights in Elgar's Sea Pictures.
A meaningful Mahler 3 from the LPO and Sir Mark Elder
One opera conductor gives way to another to play music by one of the greatest of all opera conductors: Mahler's mighty Third Symphony.