Slow Build to Raising the Rafters

Evening Standard - London › September 07, 2006

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PROMS 2006 BBCSO/Haitink Albert Hall .....

Barry Millington Lashings of wit: Mark Thomas CAN THERE be a more thrilling, a more cathartic experience than the final pages of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony? As the massed choral voices and thundering organ echo to the rafters, it seems almost as if the Albert Hall was built to accommodate the mighty peroration.

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Slow Build to Raising the Rafters

It was a painstakingly won climax, however. Bernard Haitink is not a man to be hurri...

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