Check out this SWR event with Ingo Metzmacher and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. It respects the audience’s intelligence, taste and humour.
György Ligeti: Lontano
Dmitri Shostakovitch: 1st violin concerto
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 3rd symphony
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