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| | Bartok, Miraculous Mandarin Ballet Suite, Mahler No. 7 Philharmonia Orchestra, Salonen, Hall 1, The Sage, Gateshead, ... (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | With a bravado usually absent in leaders of symphony orchestras, he waved fondly to what must have seemed to him to be his adoring fans. |
 | | The Philharmonia is well known for its fullness of tone, and the Sage responded well to it, with the hall's superb acoustic coping easily with the sheer volume of sound produced. |
 | | As a total this isn't too bad a figure, until you discover that the Philharmonia and Budapest concerts are less than a week apart, and the four Kirov concerts are on consecutive days, with a gap of two days in the middle. |
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