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Barenboim’s Immaculately Planned Boulez Concert

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GermanyGermany Berlin Festtage (3) – Boulez: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Anna Lapkovskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ladies of the MDR Choir and NDR Choir (chorus masters: James Wood and Bernhard Epstein), Michael Barenboim (violin), Carlo Laurenzi and Jérémie Henriot (sound and live electronics, developed and realised at IRCAM), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (piano, conductor). Philharmonie, Berlin, 29.3.2015 (MB)

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Muti Champions Scriabin and Mourns a Critic with Mozart

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United StatesUnited States  Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Prokoviev, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Mozart, Ligeti, Beethoven: Yefim Bronfman (piano), Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor), Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Rosa Feola (soprano), Alisa Kolosova (mezzo-soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Michele Pertusi (bass), Stephanie Jeong (violin), Kenneth Olsen (cello), Jonathan Biss (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chorus (Duain Wolfe, director), Chicago Symphony Orchestra/ Riccardo Muti (conductor), Orchestra Hall, Chicago 15/23/27.1.2015, 19/26.2.2015, 7.3 2015 (DP)

Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Photo: the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Photo: Todd Rosenberg)

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Robust Beethoven and Schubert from Canada’s ‘All-Star’ Octet

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CanadaCanada Beethoven and Schubert: Octagon (Martin Beaver and Mark Fewer, violins, Rivka Golani, viola, Rachel Mercer, cello, Joseph Phillips, double bass, James Campbell, clarinet, Kathleen McLean, bassoon and Kenneth MacDonald, French horn), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 24.3.2015 (GN)

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