Alan Gilbert takes on the Mahler Fourth.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence Leonidas Kavakos played a new concerto by Lera Auerback |
In the online marketing materials for this week’s series of concerts at David Geffen Hall, featuring a new violin concerto by composer Lera Auerbach and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major, the orchestra’s promotion department referred to the latter as Mahler's “sunniest” work. However, as Friday nights concert under the baton of music director Alan Gilbert showed, this concert offered very little in the way of solar illumination.
