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Berliner Philharmoniker casts a Russian spell over the Proms

By Mark Pullinger, 06 September 2014
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“an account of Stravinsky’s The Firebird the likes of which I have never heard before”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 5 September 2014
Programme
Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances, Op.45
Stravinsky, The Firebird
Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.