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Berlin Philharmonic is Shanghaied

Berlin Philharmonic is Shanghaied

The orchestra takes up a six-day residency this week with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and pianist Yuja Wang.

The residency includes four orchestra concerts at the Shanghai Grand Theatre with works by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Modest Mussorgsky, Maurice Ravel and Richard Wagner as part of the China Shanghai International Arts Festival. Yuja Wang will be the soloist in Sergei Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. There are also seven chamber concerts throughout the city with various Philharmoniker ensembles, ranging from string quartets to brass ensembles.

 

 

pictured: Petrenko with Shenzen pal in 2015

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