Sir John Barbirolli conducts Nielsen & Mahler

Some ‘truly remarkable music-making’, as critic Rob Cowan puts it in Replay. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2016

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2016
Catalogue No: SJB108485
Label: Barbirolli Society

Gramophone Magazine

July 2016

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Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 (FS97)

BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra & Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

Mahler: Symphony No. 7

BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra & Hallé Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli

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The Barbirolli Society’s latest release isa 2-CD set of the complete concert given in the Free TradeHall, Manchester on 20October 1960,with the combined forces of theHallé and BBC Northern SymphonyOrchestras. The concert consisted of Nielsen’s Symphony No.5 and Mahler’s Symphony No.7.

Michael Kennedy, writing in 2000, stated: ‘Performances of the (Mahler) Seventh were much rarer then than they are today, and Mahlerian scholars and enthusiasts flocked to Manchester for the event, among them Deryck Cooke who was profoundly impressed by Sir John’s ability to make the work’s structure cohere. This was an especially significant comment coming from Cooke, who harboured many doubts about the symphony and confessed to finding it most ‘problematical’.’

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July 2016

Some ‘truly remarkable music-making’, as critic Rob Cowan puts it in Replay.

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Nielsen & Mahler

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