Esa-Pekka Salonen on Mahler: Music for Conductors

Published: April 6, 2018, 11:04 a.m.

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\\u201cStrauss can be conducted by an orangutan and it still sounds pretty nice. Mahler... not so.\\u201d

Esa-Pekka Salonen reveals why so many conductors fall in love with Mahler\\u2019s enigmatic music.

Join us as he brings to life the raucous First Symphony in Leicester, Basingstoke and London next week: https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/concerts/soloist/63/fray__david

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