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  • Mr. Rihm is sometimes described as a Mahlerian neo-Romantic, but this work, with its dreadnought ostinatos and slaughterhouse chorales, seems more like a post-Cold War updating of the language of Berg’s Lulu.

    Philip Roth���s Grim Everyman Takes a Bow with Tak��cs 2007

  • Mr. Rihm is sometimes described as a Mahlerian neo-Romantic, but this work, with its dreadnought ostinatos and slaughterhouse chorales, seems more like a post-Cold War updating of the language of Berg’s Lulu.

    Philip Roth���s Grim Everyman Takes a Bow with Tak��cs 2007

  • He's been doing a Mahler cycle for the last number of years with varying degrees of success, and unfortunately everything "classical" that he conducts lately sounds Mahlerian, which is not good.

    Atlantic Crossing sfmike 2006

  • "It was the dramatic climax of the piece and it needed a kind of Mahlerian swirl," says McClatchy.

    Big Brother sings! 2005

  • Stutzmann's absence made the evening all the rosier, in that the tenor of the program shifted from Mahlerian angst (Songs on the Death of Children -- "Kindertotenlieder" -- are hardly mood-lifters) to sweetness and light.

    Eschenbach, Mozart, Mahler and the NSO -- getting along famously Anne Midgette 2010

  • The highlight was a breathy, half-whispered Urlicht (another theme later redeveloped in the Second Symphony) and a richly comic Lob des hohen Verstandes (Praise of Lofty Intellect), a Mahlerian jibe at music critics.

    Hallé/Elder - review Alfred Hickling 2010

  • Langford was dead by then and his successor Neville Cardus at first seemed to be only a lukewarm Mahlerian.

    Mahler’s mass following 2010

  • If Sir Adrian Boult seems an unlikely Mahlerian, the facts contradict the assumption.

    Mahler’s mass following 2010

  • At first I thought maybe the group had left it all on the athletic field of "Partita," but I actually think it was Knussen's conducting style, precisely cued and impeccably balanced, but missing the Mahlerian sweep — Sung's conducting, with its forward momentum and high emotional temperature, would have actually been a boon here.

    Magna Carter (8): You've got a head start Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • He had become a Mahlerian in 1933 when he heard the Fourth in London conducted by Webern.

    Mahler’s mass following 2010

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