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Stan Metzger

Bach’s Brandenburgs in Montreal: Complete in Every Way

20/06/201327/05/2013 by Stan

CanadaCanada Bach, Brandenburg Concerti: Soloists and Winners of the 2012 Canada Musical Instrument Bank Awards, Elizabeth Wallfisch (violinist/director), St. George Church, Montreal, 23.5.2013 (SSM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Montreal, Stan Metzger

Suite Fifteen: Winners of the 2012 Competition Open “Bach Week” at the Montreal Festival

29/05/201324/05/2013 by Stan

CanadaCanada Bach: Montreal Chamber Music Festival, St. George’s Church, Montreal,  22.5.2013 (SSM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Montreal, Stan Metzger

Mozart and Bruckner:Lightness and Heaviness

07/05/201328/04/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mozart, Bruckner: Emanuel Ax (piano), New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert (Conductor), Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center 24.4.2013 (SSM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger

Voices in a Garden

07/05/201323/04/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Rameau, Monteclair, Dauvergne, Grandval, Gluck, Campra: “Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau,” Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (Director/Conductor), Harvey Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 19.4.2013 (SSM)

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Unusual Mozart, Colorful Janáček and Dramatic Schumann

22/04/201317/04/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mozart, Janáček, Schumann: Jonathan Biss (piano), Elias String Quartet, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, 10.4.2013 (SSM)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger

You Don’t (Des) Say

10/03/202313/04/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Handel, Giulio Cesare: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Harry Bicket (conductor). Lincoln Center, New York, 9.4.2013. (SSM)

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Andras Schiff: Better at Keyboard Than Podium

07/04/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann: András Schiff (piano and conductor), New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 3.4.2013 (SSM)

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The St. Matthew Passion: Glorious Bach, Confusing Production

08/04/201331/03/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Bach, St. Matthew Passion: Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Iván Fischer (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York 28.3.2013 (SSM)

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