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Geoff Diggines

Prom 67: Marvellous Mendelssohn from Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra

11/09/201207/09/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Riccardo Chailly (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.9.2012 (GD)

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Prom 50: Imaginative Programming from Vänskä and the BBC SO

27/08/201226/08/2012 by Stan

 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 50: Beethoven, Mozart, Delius, Nielsen: Michael Collins (basset clarinet), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor), 20 .8.2012. (GD)

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Prom 43. Dutoit’s Delius and Saint-Saëns Outshine his Tchaikovksy

20/08/201219/08/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 43: Delius, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky. Benjamin Grosvenor (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 14.8.12 (GD)

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Belcea Quartet Display Concentration and Energy in Late Beethoven

19/06/201218/06/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven: Belcea Quartet, Wigmore Hall, London 3.16.2012 (GD)

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Magnificent Mozart, Kurtág and Brahms from the Elias

06/06/201206/06/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Kurtág, Brahms: Elias Quartet, Pascal Moragues (clarinet) Wigmore Hall, London., 30.5.2012. (GD)

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Eliot Gardiner Conducts Bach’s Ascension Overtures at St Giles’

22/05/201216/05/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Bach: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) St Giles’ Cripplegate, London 10.05.12 (GD)

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A Somewhat Disappointing Programme from Philippe Jordan and the Philharmonia

08/05/201208/05/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Beethoven, Liszt, Brahms: Simon Trpčeski (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Philippe Jordan (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London. 3. 5. 2012 (GD)

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A Revelatory Missa Solemnis from Nikolaus Harnoncourt

01/05/201228/04/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123. Soloists, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor), Barbican Hall London, 11. 4. 2012. (GD)

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