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Lucky Berliners: Kosky’s Magic Flute

23/05/201402/05/2014 by Stan

 GermanyGermany  Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin, Kristiina Poska (conductor), Komische Oper, Berlin, 21.4.2014 (JR)

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Swiss Orchestra Brings Adams, Glass, Pärt to Cardiff

23/05/201401/05/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Adams, Glass, Pärt:  Matt Haimovitz (cello), Basel Symphony Orchestra / Dennis Russell Davies (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 19.4.2014 (PCG)

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Substitutes Nielsen, Svendsen and Jensen Greeted with Cheers

01/06/201401/05/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Nielsen, Tchaikovsky, Svendsen:Leonard Elschenbroch (cello), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Eivind Gullberg Jensen (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff. 19.4.2014 (PCG)

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Mesmerizing with Mozart, Holst—and Silence

01/06/201401/05/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mozart, Holst: Canton Symphony Orchestra, Gerhardt Zimmermann (conductor), Umstattd Performing Arts Hall, Canton, Ohio, 26.04.2014 (TW)

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Pianist Stephen De Pledge Tells the Truth about Love

01/06/201401/05/2014 by Stan

New ZealandNew Zealand    Granados, Schumann, Wagner arr. Liszt, R. Strauss arr. De Pledge, Anthony Ritchie, Prokofiev, Debussy: Stephen De Pledge (piano); The Old Library, Whangarei, 27.4.2014 [Pse]

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Latin American High Points in a Wayward Recital by Sergio Tiempo

01/06/201430/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy, Prokofiev, Chopin, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, Ginastera: Sergio Tiempo (piano), Queen Elizabeth Hall,  29.04.2014 (RB)

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A Stimulating Programme by Members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain  at Wigmore Hall

01/06/201430/04/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schumann, Kurtág, Berg, Robin Members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain (Odile Auboin, viola; Alain Billard, clarinet/bass clarinet; Dimitri Vassilakis (piano) Wigmore Hall, London, 27.04.2014 (CC)

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Too Tame and Too Well-Behaved: Juilliard415 Plays Corelli

01/06/201430/04/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Corelli: Juilliard415, Monica Huggett (director), Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, 25.4.2014 (SSM)

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