Oboist Albrecht Mayer and composer Gustav Mahler in the Chemnitz symphony concert: With “high wood” and large cutlery | free press

2023-05-11 16:36:00

When it comes to symphonic music, it’s about pulling out the big emotional cutlery and yet not getting too loud, then they are often the means of choice: the oboe and its lovely sisters, the oboe d’amore and the cor anglais with its delicate, slender and nasal sound. Think, for example, of the yearning theme at the beginning of Largo from…