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tamaranthPhilharmonia cond. Eliahu Inbal; Caroline Stein soprano, Ekaterina Semenchuk mezzo.
I still haven't quite got to grips with Mahler's orchestral work: it feels lush and late-Victorian and keeps reminding me of Beethoven and Brahms.
This was lovely, though long. Caroline Stein stepped in at short notice, the original soprano being off sick: Stein has a splendidly warm, lyrical voice, and had a better feel for the acoustic of a full RFH than Semenchuk (who was very quiet for her first few bars).
Slightly disappointingly, they haven't finished putting the RFH organ back together -- we got about half of it, and it wasn't really loud enough.
Also, have been ruined for good seats by becoming accustomed to sitting in the choir (which was, last night, occupied by an actual choir). From the back of the hall the orchestra looked a very long way away, and were remarkably quiet ...
I still haven't quite got to grips with Mahler's orchestral work: it feels lush and late-Victorian and keeps reminding me of Beethoven and Brahms.
This was lovely, though long. Caroline Stein stepped in at short notice, the original soprano being off sick: Stein has a splendidly warm, lyrical voice, and had a better feel for the acoustic of a full RFH than Semenchuk (who was very quiet for her first few bars).
Slightly disappointingly, they haven't finished putting the RFH organ back together -- we got about half of it, and it wasn't really loud enough.
Also, have been ruined for good seats by becoming accustomed to sitting in the choir (which was, last night, occupied by an actual choir). From the back of the hall the orchestra looked a very long way away, and were remarkably quiet ...
