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Tag Archives: Ain Anger
From Pärnu with Love: Tchaikovsky 2 fizzes under Paavo Järvi
Paavo Järvi/Estonian Festival Orchestra Pärnu Music Festival, 21st July 2019 “Erkki-Sven Tüür’s Sow the Wind, Mussorgsky’s Songs of Dances of Death and Tchaikovsky 2… this is not good box office!” admitted Paavo Järvi at the reception following the final concert … Continue reading
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Tagged Ain Anger, Alfven, Estonian Festival Orchestra, Mussorgsky, Paavo Järvi, Sibelius, Sumera, Tchaikovsky, Tüür
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Prom 29: Twilight of the Old Believers as Semyon Bychkov leads a majestic Khovanshchina
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina **** Prom 29, Royal Albert Hall, 6th August 2017 At the end of Götterdämmerung, Brünnhilde rides her horse onto a pyre. Although his opera’s not quite as long, Mussorgsky trumps Wagner by sending a whole chorus to their immolation as Act … Continue reading
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Tagged Ain Anger, Ante Jerkunica, Anush Hovhannisyan, BBC Singers, BBCSO, Christopher Ventris, Colin Judson, Elena Maximova, George Gagnidze, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, Khovanshchina, Mussorgsky, Norbert Ernst, Semyon Bychkov, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Vsevolod Grivnov
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