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The orchestra's music director Mark Elder is conducting the majority of the programme, though, Symphonies Nos 1, 3, 4, 6 and 7, with the other entrusted to Markus Stenz, Lothar Koenigs, Edward Gardner and violinist-turned-conductor Nikolaj Znaider.
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It is a heritage that Stenz, the orchestra's chief conductor since 2003 and also the city's general music director, is doing his best to make better known to people outside of Germany, many of whom have heard of the Berlin Philharmonic but may have trouble pronouncing "Gurzenich."
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When he recreated the historic concert Mahler conducted in 1904 for the 2008 BBC Proms in London, Stenz added the rarely heard 1950s piece "Punkte" by new music avatar Karlheinz Stockhausen, who was to have attended but died a few weeks earlier.
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For two performances, on September 24 and 25, Stenz's Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne, with nine soloists including Irish soprano Orla Boylan and German mezzo Petra Lang, shook the rafters of the sold-out Cologne Philharmonie concert hall.
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One tends to think in the south of Munich, the north Hamburg and Berlin in the east but clearly the western hub of music is Cologne, Stenz told Reuters in an interview after an intense morning re-recording bits of Mahler with, once again, those massive forces, to polish it for a cycle being released on the OehmsClassics label.
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In the event, Stenz, a solidly built 46-year-old who sometimes pointed with his head, almost like a soccer player -- so the children's choirs in boxes above the stage got their cues, he said -- made Mahler's most challenging symphony a spiritual and musical high point for anyone who heard it.
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Coley Walsh and Adam Stenz, both from Denver, said they were shocked that more people didn't attend.
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For two performances, on September 24 and 25, Stenz's Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne, with nine soloists including Irish soprano Orla Boylan and German mezzo Petra Lang, shook the rafters of the sold-out Cologne Philharmonie concert hall.
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Coley Walsh and Adam Stenz, both from Denver, said they were shocked that more people didn't attend.
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It is a heritage that Stenz, the orchestra's chief conductor since 2003 and also the city's general music director, is doing his best to make better known to people outside of Germany, many of whom have heard of the Berlin Philharmonic but may have trouble pronouncing "Gurzenich."
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