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Eiji Oue conducts La Verdi in an incandescent Mahler 6

By James Imam, 03 February 2014
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Reviewed at Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan on 30 January 2014
Programme
Mahler, Symphony no. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
Performers
Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana Giuseppe Verdi
Eiji Oue, Conductor
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.