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Hope dies last: Sakari Oramo's triumphantly tragic Mahler 6 hits home

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“like placing canvases of Kandinsky and Klimt side by side”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 26 September 2024
Mahler, Symphony no. 6 in A minor "Tragic"
Sakari Oramo, Conductor
Sakari Oramo, Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony in Seoul
****1
Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes
****1
From snow to sludge: Icelandic music at the Barbican Centre
**111
Fine Lindberg and Stravinsky double bill from the BBC Symphony
****1
UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s unEarth impresses on scale, not substance
**111
Sir James MacMillan delights with his Christmas Oratorio
*****
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