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Verdi,
La Traviata:
Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera.
Conductor: Emmanuel Joel-Hornak. Edinburgh Festival Theatre,
19.11.2008 (SRT)
Verdi,
I Due Foscari :
Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao. Coro de
Ópera de Bilbao Conductor: Renato Palumbo Palacio Euskalduna de
Bilbao. 15.11.2008. (JMI)
Verdi,
Luisa
Miller:
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Coro de la Generalitat Valenciana,
Conductor
Lorin Maazel.
Palau de les Arts Valencia, 13.11.2008 (JMI)
Michael Berkeley, For You:
Music Theatre Wales, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, 11.11.08
(RJ)
Mussorgsky, Boris
Godunov:
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the
English National Opera, English National Opera, London 10.11.2008
(AO)
Berg,
Wozzeck:
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State Opera, Soloists, Bavarian State
Opera Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich
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Alan Gilbert (conductor), The Metropolitan Opera, New York City,
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Devon, UK 13.11.2008 (BK)
Debussy, Copland
and Rimsky–Korsakov:
James Meldrum (clarinet), Royal College of
Music Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson, Cadogan Hall, London,
13.11.2008 (BBr)
Beethoven:
Ying Quartet, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall,
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 12.11.2008 (BJ)
Janáček,
Beethoven, and Brahms:
Andreas Haefliger (piano).
Wigmore
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Bruckner:
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek Barbican Hall, London,
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Brahms, Bolcom, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff:
Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman, pianos,
Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 11.11.2008 (BJ
Mozart,
Brahms, Dvořák: José
Serebrier (conductor), Rachel-Barton
Pine (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Cadogan Hall, London
11.11.2008 (AO)
Mozart, Berg
and Sibelius:
Tetzlaff Quartet. Zankel
Hall, New York City, 8.11.2008 (BH)
Bach,
Vivaldi, Pachebel:
Remus Azoitei (violin /director); Yuri
Kalnits (violin); London Musical Arts Ensemble. St
Martin-in-the-Fields, London. 6.11.2008
(ED)
Music of
Remembrance - works by Sargon, Navok, and Olivero: Guenter Buchwald, conductor,
soloists, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Benaroya Hall,
Seattle, 2.11.2008(BJ)
Copland, Carter,
Bernstein and Rouse:
Michelle DeYoung
(mezzo-soprano), Steven Stucky (host), David Robertson
(conductor), New York Philharmonic. Avery Fisher Hall, New York
City, 1.11.2008 (BH)
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Touch -
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Orchestra' shares the Salonen legacy in Hong Kong with
best-loved classics:
Yefim Bronfman (piano), LA
Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa–Pekka Salonen,
Hong Kong Cultural Center, Hong Kong, 29.10.2008 and 30.10.2008
(PL)
The Four
String Quartets of Iannis Xenakis:
The Jack
Quartet, Le Poisson Rouge, New York City, 29.10.2008 (BH)
Philip Glass, Steve
Reich and Rhys Chatham:
Either/Or,
Richard Carrick (founder), David Shively (founder), Issue Project
Room, Brooklyn, NY, 24.10.2008 (BH)
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