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CBSO at The Sage Gateshead THE City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra became the Mahler orchestra of the moment under Sir Simon Rattle's baton, in the 1980s, their award-winning CD of the Second Symphony, The Resurrection, still a benchmark recording.
It might, then, seem a bold move for the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons to programme the piece towards the end of his first season but the CBSO made a bold move in appointing a musical director just short of his 30th birthday and whose work was barely known in the UK in the first place.See the full content of this document
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Bold Move by the Cbso Enthralls Sage Audience
The Second is a gigantic hour-and-a-half's wor...
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