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Work: Mother Tongue

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ComposerWaley-Cohen, Freya (b. 1989)
PeriodContemporary
Year2024
Work typeOrchestral
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Restrained Brahms from Víkingur Ólafsson, rapt Bartók from the LPO

Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra © Mark Allan
A unique, but at times frustrating performance of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto demonstrates Víkingur Ólafsson's qualities, but it's in Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin that the LPO really comes alive. 
***11
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