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Bernard Jacobson

Cello Eloquence in an Evening of Classic Piano Trios

27/01/201522/01/2015 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mozart, Strauss, and Mendelssohn: Cynthia Raim (piano), Catherine Cho (violin), Peter Stumpf (cello), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 15.1.2015 (BJ)

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Seymour Lipkin Does Justice to Beethoven

26/01/201520/01/2015 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mozart, Beethoven, and Bartók: Seymour Lipkin (piano), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 14.1.2015 (BJ)

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Bramwell Tovey Takes Theater Music to the Concert Hall

01/01/201522/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Britten, Tovey, Gershwin, and Bernstein: Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Alison Balsom (trumpet), Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 11.12.2014 (BJ)

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A Dynamic Conclusion for Autumn’s Quartet Season

01/01/201518/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Schubert and Dvořák: Borromeo String Quartet, Kim Kashkashian (viola), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 14.12.2014 (BJ)

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A “Denkvoll” Recital with an Unconventional Essay

01/01/201515/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Haydn, Janáček, Schubert, Mozart, and Beethoven (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10.12.2014 (BJ)

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An Inexhaustible Source of Superb Quartets  

15/12/201411/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Brahms: Dover Quartet, Roberto Diaz (viola), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 9.12.2014 (BJ)

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The Philadelphia Orchestra Makes Amends to Brahms

15/12/201411/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Brahms, Haydn, and Strauss: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 6.12.2014 (BJ)

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Curtis Chamber Orchestra Combines Pleasure with Instruction

15/12/201408/12/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Copland, Bernstein, Mahler, and Stravinsky: Bella Hristova (violin), Curtis Chamber Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero and Edward Poll (conductors), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.12.2014 (BJ)

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