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All-embracing Weill and Mahler from Axelrod and La Verdi

By James Imam, 26 April 2015
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Reviewed at Auditorium di Milano Fondazione Cariplo, Milan on 24 April 2015
Programme
Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Suite)
Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor
Performers
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano
John Axelrod, Conductor
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.