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The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra are terrific ambassadors for the Ukraine at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [7] – Skoryk, Lysenko, Karamanov, Sibelius: Tamara Stefanovich (pianist), Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra / Hobart Earle (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, 6.9.2022, livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Hobart Earle conducts the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra © Fabian Schellhorn

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Igor Levit performs an illuminating and unforgettable Busoni Piano Concerto at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [6] – Schoenberg, Busoni: Igor Levit (pianist), Orchestre e Coro dell Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 5.9.2022, and livestreamed on the Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano © Fabian Schellhorn

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Lahav Shani conducts an outstandingly memorable Mahler’s First Symphony at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [5] – Ligeti, Pijper, Mahler: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Lahav Shani (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 4.9.2022, and livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Lahav Shani conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra © Fabian Schellhorn

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The Cleveland Orchestra perform a glorious, singing, Schubert Great C major at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [4] – Rihm, Schubert: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 3.9.2022, and livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Roger Mastroianni

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Nézet-Séguin and his Philadelphians bring Florence Price’s First Symphony to Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [3] – Dvořák, Szymanowski, Price: Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 1.9.2022, livestreamed on the Digital Concert Hall, 1.9.2022. (GT)

Rehearsal: Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) and Lisa Batiashvili (violin) © Todd Rosenberg Photography

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs a sublime Missa solemnis at Berlin’s Musikfest

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin 2022 [2] – Beethoven: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Anna Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Giovanni Sala (tenor), William Thomas (bass), Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Philharmonie Hall, Berlin, 31.8.2022, and live-streamed on Digital Concert Hall. (GT)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts Beethoven’s Missa solemnis © Fabian Schellhorn

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At the end of Stefan Herheim’s new Berlin Ring, Götterdämmerung wipes the slate clean

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GermanyGermany Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, actors, Chorus and Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor). Filmed (directed by Götz Filenius) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 2021 and now available on Marquee TV. (JPr)

Okka von der Damerau (Waltraute) and Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde) © Bernd Uhlig

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