Michael Cookson

A Pity the Dresden Jazz Night Fun Had To End

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival 2019 [7] – Jazz Night: Nils Landgren & Friends, Kulturpalast, Dresden, 9.6.2019. (MC)

Randy Brecker, China Moses, Nils Landgren (c) Oliver Killig

Musicians – Nils Landgren (trombone, vocals), China Moses (vocals), Ada Rovatti (saxophone), Randy Brecker (trumpet), Simon Oslender (piano, keyboards), Lars Danielsson (double bass), Wolfgang Haffner (drums)

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This Dresden Frauenkirche Concert of Secular Baroque Music was Something to Treasure

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival) 2019 [5] – Vivaldi, Handel: Sabina Puértolas (soprano), Xavier Sabata (countertenor), La Folia Barockorchester / Robin Peter Müller (violin, direction), Frauenkirche, Dresden, 6.6.2019. (MC)

Sabina Puértolas (soprano), Xavier Sabata (countertenor) and La Folia Barockorchester
(c) Robert Jentzsch

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David Bösch’s Contemporary New Dresden Nabucco Overcomes the Loss of its King

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GermanyGermany Verdi, Nabucco: Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Sinfoniechor Dresden, Extrachor der Staastoper Dresden, Sächsischer Staatskapelle Dresden / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 5.6.2019. (MC)

Semperoper’s Nabucco (c) Ludwig Olah

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Compelling and Stimulating Concert from the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival) 2019 [4] – J.S. Bach, Bruch, Haydn, Yinon, Shostakovich: Emmanuel Tjeknavorian (violin), Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie / Wolfgang Hentrich (conductor), Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Germany, 3.6.2019. (MC)

Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie (c) Kai Bienert

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Nikolai Tokarev Plays Works by Fellow Russians Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky

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GermanyGermany Dresden Music Festival) 2019 [3] – Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky: Nikolai Tokarev (piano), Lichthof, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany, 2.6.2019. (MC)

Tchaikovsky – ‘The Seasons’ for solo piano, Op.37a

Mussorgsky – ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ for solo piano

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