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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s powerful response to climate change

★★★★☆

The playing was great, but it was scarcely the point. Kopatchinskaja created a piece of plotless

theatre that was designed as an assault on the senses, including warning sirens, an attacking

battalion of trombones and, most poignantly, a finale consisting of dozens of metronomes,

slowly winding down to darkness as mankind’s time on Earth runs out.

Simon Thompson

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Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with a rapturous Sarah Connolly

★★★★☆

Connolly brings her heart and soul to these texts as well as her wonderfully warm timbre. Yet
she never wallows in the melancholy: Von der Schönheit (Of Beauty) was fresh and evocative,

and the climactic Abschied (Farewell) affecting for its tenderness, not a funereal elegy.

Neil Fisher

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A bracing Eroica Symphony and a knockout pianist

★★★★☆

François-Xavier Roth is fascinating to watch. In the Allegro con brio there were vast stretches in

which he barely gave a beat, yet the music poured forth like a powerful river. And then when the
mood changed he literally jumped into action, both feet lifting off the podium. He drew our ears

to every corner of the London Symphony Orchestra. On Marquee TV from December

2, welcome.marquee.tv

Rebecca Franks

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