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May 9, 2014 Hear an intriguing program pairing John Adams' gorgeous Harmonium with an oratorio by black Canadian-American composer R. Nathaniel Dett — a work whose 1937 premiere was weirdly cut short.
A Rare American Oratorio At Carnegie Hall
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May 6, 2014 John Luther Adams' prize-winning piece Become Ocean headlines a concert devoted to sea and sand that includes Debussy's La mer and an Edgard Varèse piece inspired by the New Mexico desert.
Seattle Symphony, New Pulitzer Winner At Carnegie Hall
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May 28, 2014 Watch the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform an extended piece derived from an ancient canon of repentance. Unfolding as a long prayer, the music is rich, multilayered and mesmerizing.
Music By Arvo Pärt, From The Met Museum
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June 19, 2013 Hear the full program and see an excerpt of the performances in Boston, thanks to a collaboration between the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Boston Early Music Festival and Classical New England.
Mozart's Violin Comes To Boston, Live In Concert
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May 22, 2013 Watch an intimate concert inspired by Muhly's exciting, intrigue-filled opera Two Boys, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
Nico Muhly, Recorded Live At (Le) Poisson Rouge
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May 13, 2013 Pink Martini singer Storm Large joins Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra for Kurt Weill's satirical Seven Deadly Sins, in a program bookended by composers who straddled the turn of the last century.
Spring For Music: Detroit Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
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May 11, 2013 Hear an evening of intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostakovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, Mstislav Rostropovich.
Spring For Music: National Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
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April 19, 2013 When the orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners hear an ensemble comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience."
Carnegie Hall Live: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner
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April 10, 2013 After 43 seasons, the revered ensemble, born in Japan, calls it quits. Here, the players serenade Boston at WGBH, with a concert of music by Haydn, Bartok and Ravel.
Tokyo String Quartet Bids Boston A Bittersweet Farewell
April 2, 2013 Hear one of America's finest young pianists and an emerging English string quartet play music by visionary composer Robert Schumann, as well as music by Mozart and artists Schumann influenced.
Carnegie Hall Live: Jonathan Biss And The Elias String Quartet
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February 7, 2013 Max Richter grew tired of Vivaldi's warhorse The Four Seasons. But instead of writing off the piece forever, Richter rewrote it. He blended Vivaldi's work with his own music.
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January 29, 2013 NPR Music, WQXR and (Le) Poisson Rouge host a evening that spans great Western and Middle Eastern music with members of an inspiring orchestra, led by one of classical music's most eminent artists.
Daniel Barenboim And Members Of The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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March 6, 2013 Hear one of the most exciting pieces of 21st-century music: a new retelling of Jesus' last days, from Latin American and Jewish perspectives, courtesy of composer Osvaldo Golijov and collaborators.
Carnegie Hall Live: Golijov's 'St. Mark Passion'
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September 11, 2012 A group of New York City contemporary music dynamos traversed three landmark works in a single evening, recorded live at New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge.
ACME In Concert: Steve Reich's Complete String Quartets
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March 6, 2013 Hear a top French chamber orchestra bring passionate life to operatic works by Vivaldi, Handel and the little-heard Nicola Antonio Porpora — a composer who was once Handel's rival.
Ensemble Matheus At Carnegie Hall
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February 1, 2013 The orchestra drawn from Israel and many countries across the Middle East and North Africa play two of Beethoven's Symphonies as part of their "Beethoven for All" initiative.
Carnegie Hall Live: Daniel Barenboim Leads The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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November 20, 2017 Hear the acclaimed British choral group perform Christmas music from 16th century England at the acoustically rich St. Paul's Church in Cambridge, Mass.
A Choral Christmas With Stile Antico
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October 3, 2016 The charismatic conductor first heard Stravinsky's rambunctious music when he was just 8. Watch him lead the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela live on Thursday night.
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May 16, 2016 Hear one of today's most charismatic pianists perform music with deep psychological — and physical — dimensions by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms.
Yuja Wang Plays Carnegie Hall
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April 21, 2016 Dmitri Shostakovich's powerful Seventh Symphony was written during the devastating World War II siege of Leningrad. Hear Mariss Jansons lead the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The 'Leningrad' Symphony At Carnegie Hall
February 22, 2016 Music director Iván Fischer conducts a Liszt piano concerto with Marc-André Hamelin as soloist, and a powerful wartime symphony by Prokofiev.
Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Carnegie Hall
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January 15, 2016 With a Strauss waltz, a cheeky take on Strauss and a Beethoven concerto, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin conjures the sound of old Vienna, once the musical capital of Europe.
Hear Excerpts From The Concert
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November 23, 2015 From an all-Beethoven residency week, hear the storied Berlin Philharmonic play the profound Sixth and witty Eighth with conductor Simon Rattle.
Beethoven Symphonies At Carnegie Hall Via Berlin
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October 23, 2015 Conductor Andris Nelsons rallies the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Prokofiev's riotous Alexander Nevsky and makes the orchestra shine in Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.
A Tale Of Two Sergeys: Boston Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall
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