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Bernard Haitink’s celestial Schubert and mystical Mahler in Berlin

By Jonathan Sutherland, 08 October 2016
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“translucent instrumental clarity derived from meticulous mastery of the score”
Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 6 October 2016
Programme
Schubert, Symphony no. 8 in B minor "Unfinished", D.759
Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Bernard Haitink, Conductor
Christian Elsner, Tenor
Christian Gerhaher, Baritone
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Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.