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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Die Walküre stands at the pinnacle of Romantic musical drama. Barely has the curtain opened when Wagner unleashes orchestral writing that sweeps everything away in its path. Storm, incest, divine wrath, irrepressible passion: everything is there […]
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