Ath the season-opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Alan Gilbert, the Hamburg audience warmly applauded after each of the first two movements of Mahler’s first symphony.
Is this new normal, asks one of our readers?
Pretty good performance, as it happens.
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