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32 days ago

The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played to…

3 months ago

Mendelssohn: Symphonies and Oratorios album review – Andris Nelsons’ prodigious talent on full display ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Gewandhaus Orchestra/Nelsons/Schuen/Zeppenfeld
(Deutsche Grammophon)
The Latvian conductor finds dynamic light and shade in seven discs’ worth of special performances with an orchestra once led by the …

4 months ago

Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

European Chamber Orchestra/Harnoncourt/Urmana
(Sony)
This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta U…

12 months ago

First night of the Proms review – Batiashvili’s magnificent Sibelius opens the festival ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Royal Albert Hall, London
An oddly disparate programme, including an Errollyn Wallen world premiere and a Vaughan Williams rarity, didn’t quite cohere in this opening concert, but all was outstandingl…

16 months ago

The remarkable story of conductor Alma Rosé and the musicians who survived the Holocaust by performing amid horrific conditions

When 13-year-old Pearl Pufeles disembarked from the cattle car at Auschw…

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