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Marin Alsop to conduct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra until 2015

When she was appointed Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony orchestra in 2007, there were murmurs of discontent from some orchestra members who felt they had been excluded from the selection process. However, as BBC Music magazine reports in its August 2009 issue, ‘How things change. “She challenges us, she educates us and she inspires us,” recently glowed the BSO players committee about their conductors until at least 2015. “Marin is a powerhouse of energy. She gets more accomplished when we’re together than any music director we’ve worked with.”’

DVOŘÁK Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’, Symphonic Variations Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop, conductor 8.570714 ‘…when the results are as fresh and enjoyable as is the case here then there’s always room for a new version of this much-loved symphony.’ (MusicWeb International) ‘Alsop’s is not a histrionic reading but one full of affectionate touches…leaving me saying to myself yet again in pleasure: “What a lovely work this is.” What makes this disc doubly recommendable is the superb account of the Symphonic Variations, inspired but surprisingly neglected.’ (Gramophone)

BERNSTEIN Mass Jubilant Sykes, baritone Morgan State University Choir Peabody Children’s Chorus Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop, conductor 8.559622-23