Casting this opera well is difficult even for bigger houses, but WBO manages it.
Baritone Simon Keenlyside and mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova perform Mahler’s early songs with Dudamel and the orchestra.
In a recital for the San Jose Chamber Music Society, members of the former St. Lawrence String Quartet partner with pianist Ilya Yakushev.
The two great masters — one on sarod, the other on guitar — play an impressive and inspiring concert.