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Vienna

Freyer’s Bewildering Don Giovanni Pulls Together Brilliantly in Vienna

28/02/201617/11/2015 by Mark Berry

AustriaAustria Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: Holder Kristen) and Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, Jac van Steen (conductor), Volksoper, Vienna, 14.11.2015. (MB)

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Achim Freyer’s Don Giovanni (c) Barbara Pálffy / Vienna Volksoper

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Erik Nielsen and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra Make a Fine Contribution to Wien Modern

28/02/201617/11/2015 by Mark Berry

AustriaAustria Wien Modern (4) – Gruber and Staud: Colin Currie (percussion), Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Erik Nielsen (conductor). Konzerthaus, Vienna, 15.11.2015. (MB)

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Barenboim Offers No Easy Answers – or Easy Questions in Mahler’s Ninth

28/02/201616/11/2015 by Mark Berry

Mahler: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Konzerthaus, Vienna, 15.11.2015 (MB)

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Chamber music by Haas, Schulhoff, Zeisl, Smit in wide-ranging Exil.Arte program

28/02/201616/11/2015 by Seb Smallshaw

AustriaAustria Schulhoff, Flothuis, Haas, Zeisl, Smit: Kammermusikgruppe Atout, Max Müller (readings). Musikverein (Glass Hall), Vienna. 4.11.2015. (SS)

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Nina Stemme Leads Strong Cast in Vienna Opera’s Elektra

18/11/201515/11/2015 by Mark Berry

AustriaAustria Strauss, Elektra: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Peter Schneider (conductor). State Opera, Vienna, 13.11.2015. (MB)

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Elektra – Nina Stemme (Elektra) & Anna Larsson (Klytämnestra)
(c) Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn.

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A Typically Stimulating Exploration of Contemporary Repertoire by the Arditti Quartet

15/11/201513/11/2015 by Mark Berry

 AustriaAustria Wien Modern (3) – Zorn, Lim, Tonia, Parades, Kessler: Arditti Quartet [Irvine Arditti and Ashot Sarkissjan (violins), Ralf Ehlers (viola), Lucas Fels (cello)]. Mozart-Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna, 12.11.2015 (MB)

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Mahler with Hampson and Vogt in Vienna is cloaked in Schoenberg

15/11/201508/11/2015 by Seb Smallshaw

AustriaAustria Schoenberg, Mahler: Thomas Hampson, Klaus Florian Vogt, Wiener Virtuosen. Große Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, 1.11.2015. (SS)

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Sciarrino’s Carnaval: A renaissance of the Renaissance?

09/11/201507/11/2015 by Mark Berry

AustriaAustria Wien Modern (2) – Sciarrino: Joonas Ahonen (piano), Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Klangforum Wien/Tito Ceccherini (conductor). Mozart-Saal, Konzerthaus, Vienna, 6.11.2015. (MB)

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