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MAHLER said his sixth symphony would "propound riddles, the solution of which may be attempted only by a generation which has absorbed and truly digested my first five symphonies."
Well, thanks to the Phil's marvellous Mahler edition, which runs on into next season, lucky Liverpool audiences have already absorbed five - and the only riddle after Saturday's stellar performance of his sixth is why it isn't played more often.See the full content of this document
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Review ; Four Last Songs Rlpo/Vasily Petrenko
It's been given the moniker 'tragic', but Mahler never referred to it as such, and in fact the...
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