Strategic planning was essential for artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in this 110-minute symphony in six-movements, none of which sound anything alike.
Philadelphia Orchestra galvanized a symphonic army of unlikely allies with Mahler’s perplexing ‘Symphony No. 3′
Philadelphia Orchestra music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the orchestra, Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Philadelphia Girls Choir and Philadelphia Boys Choir in Mahler's Symphony No. 3 in Marian Anderson Hall.filled the stage, packed the Kimmel Center, challenged everybody’s concentration span, overrode any acoustical limitations and yielded as fine a Philadelphia Orchestra concert as one is likely to hear.
Though conductors have needed to skip details in order to maintain the piece’s through line , Nézet-Séguin harnessed finer points, all the while building the first movement’s long span of music with a sure sense of pulse, slowing slightly as a passage climbed to its summit and then, unexpectedly, racing ahead leaving a wild profusion of color in its wake. It worked.
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