Review: Philharmonia/Alsop review — two composers named Mahler in one scorching night
At the Royal Festival Hall, the orchestra’s principal guest conductor Marin Alsop breathed life into an all-Mahler programme with a difference.
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Review: Philharmonia/Alsop review – contrasting voices of the complex Mahlers side by side
Symphonic Gustav and orchestrated songs by Alma Mahler – sung with exquisite poise by Sasha Cooke – combined in a programme conducted with warmth and care by Marin Alsop.
Review: EIF24, Fire in my mouth
The multimedia elegy for the victims of the fire, Fire in my mouth, was given its first performance in 2019. In the first concert of its residency at this year’s International Festival, the Philharmonia Orchestra gave the elegy its first UK performance under the baton of its Principal Guest Conductor, Marin Alsop.
Forbes: 50 Over 50
Marin Alsop is one of the world’s leading conductors and one of the few women who has made it to the upper echelons of the conducting world. Alsop shattered one of orchestra’s highest, hardest glass ceilings in 2007 at 51, when she became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra—the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra,…
Review: NYO-USA brings it all home with assist from Thibaudet
Marin Alsop conducted, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has returned as soloist, playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Thibaudet has already shown himself a superb partner for young musicians, his élan complementing their energy. Alsop’s qualities of precision and drive were also ideal, as was her own experience with the rest of this excellent program, which opened with…
100 Unforgettable BBC Proms
Marin Alsop is the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms. ‘I feel certain that Henry Wood would see this evening as a natural progression towards more inclusion in classical music,’ says the American in her speech.
Conductor Marin Alsop: I wasted an evening watching Tár
The musician on ditching the Harry Potter books, her love of Mrs Doubtfire and why her first musical influences were the Beatles and Leonard Bernstein.
Review: CSO and conductor Marin Alsop open Ravinia residency with South African exchange
Alsop sparked an ecstatic, pealing Allegro finale to smilingly hit that point home. Ending a tumultuous Saturday with a glimmer of — gasp — optimism? I’ll take it.
At Washington National Cathedral, Marin Alsop delivers a propulsive Ninth
The music director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival led a program of Higdon and Beethoven, joined by the Heritage Signature Chorale. (Image courtesy of Washington National Cathedral)
Review: Margaret Brouwer – Rhapsodies – Marin Alsop
This programme, in the capable hands of Marin Alsop, makes strong cases for the pieces on offer, particularly the First Symphony which sports a Dutch hymn-like melody and confident, colourful orchestral writing.