Omega Ensemble Perform Mahler’s Fourth
Check out this video recording of a recent performance of the 4th movement from Mahler’s Fourth Symphony by the Omega Ensemble with soprano Lee Abrahmsen.
Click here to read our review of the concert.
Check out this video recording of a recent performance of the 4th movement from Mahler’s Fourth Symphony by the Omega Ensemble with soprano Lee Abrahmsen.
Click here to read our review of the concert.
The Omega Ensemble under Artistic Director David Rowden, moves from the petite to the grand and then the mighty in its July concerts with the music Gounod, Spohr and Beethoven. Beethoven’s Symphony No 7 in A major opus 92, is masterpiece of the repertoire. The Omega ensemble will perform the arrangement by Pierluigi Destro (b 1959)…
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