Mahler’s Adagio & Bruckner 4
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MAHLER’S Adagio, the first movement of his unfinished Tenth Symphony, is a strange piece to build a concert around, not least because it is Mahler’s valediction to the world. Music director Thomas Sondergard’s programme introduction asked the audience to decide whether this was a haunting farewell to life or a great cry of love and…