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Prom 39: Oramo doesn't rock the boat in Mahler 5

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“sweet oboe tones emerging from the gloom like glints of the sun’s rays on a dark December day”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 14 August 2016
Haydn, Symphony no. 34 in D minor
Bray, Falling in the Fire (BBC commission: world premiere)
Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
Guy Johnston, Cello
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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