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Kitchen sink Carmen: Cristian Măcelaru rounds off the ONF season in style

By Mark Pullinger, 23 July 2020
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“the Boléro... saw marimba glissandos rattle along like skeletons on a roller-coaster”
Reviewed at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique: Auditorium, Paris on 23 July 2020
Programme
Barber, Adagio for Strings, Op.11
Shchedrin, Carmen Suite
Grieg, Two Elegiac Melodies for String Orchestra, Op.34: The Wounded Heart
Performers
Orchestre National de France
Cristian Măcelaru, 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.