Mirga’s make-do orchestra saves Salzburg’s War Requiem

Mirga’s make-do orchestra saves Salzburg’s War Requiem

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norman lebrecht

July 20, 2021

The Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra stepped in this weekend where the quarantine-anxious City of Birmingham SO feared to tread.

With considerable help from the foreign ministry in Vienna, the Mahler orchestra brought in 91 musicians from 18 countries across Europe.

Rehearsal time was tight but the performance was excellent.

Bernhard Neuhoff of BR Klassik reports here.

 

photo: DG

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