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| Financial Times |
| By David Murray |
Music Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (chamber version), Edinburgh, 14
August 2002
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THE ARTS: Cheap tickets kick-off
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| Usher Hall |
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| The £5 concert I heard last Wednesday virtually
sold out the Usher Hall, for something that seemed unpromisingly recherché
but gripped everybody's attention: a performance of Mahler's huge Das Lied
von der Erde in Schoenberg's chamber-reduction, conducted by Garry Walker
with the (mere) 13-strong Festival Ensemble - and a genuinely exciting
pair of soloists, rich-voiced young Alice Coote (unfailing rhythmic sense,
even without the weighty support of Mahler's full band) and eager,
chance-taking Jonas Kaufmann. Since we knew we weren't to get the
full-blown Mahler sound, we could admire Schoenberg's trenchant, faithful
delicacy even while longing to hear both soloists as soon as possible in the
real thing. |
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