| An ‘additional’ concert by the CBSO with music director Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, following their Proms appearance three days ago and before their brief European tour next week, during which the three pieces heard here will feature. ... After the interval, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony (1901) continued this mood of sophisticated make-believe. Its opening movement had no lack of ingratiation or suavity, but MGT was keen to emphasise those more ominous aspects which come to the fore in a development of visceral immediacy so that the equanimity of what followed could not outface. |