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43,Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Osborne and Beethoven:
Rebecca Evans (soprano), Pamela Helen
Stephen (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Walker (tenor) Matthew Rose (bass),
Sharon Bezaly (flute), Lawrence Power (viola). City of London
Sinfonia; BBC Singers; Richard Hickox (conductor), Royal Albert
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano); Jeanne-Michèle
Charbonnet (soprano); Anna Stéphany (mezzo); Simon O’Neill (tenor);
Oeter Fried (bass); Simon Preston (organ); BBC Symphony
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Royal Albert Hall, 15.8.2008
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39, Boulez and Stravinsky:
Guy Eshed
(flute), Patrice Chéreau (narrator), Members of the West-Eastern
Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Royal Albert Hall,
London, 14.8.2008 (MB)
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38, Haydn, Schoenberg, and Brahms:
Ramón
Ortega Quero (oboe), Mor Biron (bassoon),
Guy Braunstein (violin), Hassan Moataz El Molla (’cello),
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Royal
Albert Hall, London, 14.8.2008 (MB)
Prom 35, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Rimsky Korsakov:
Ashley Wass (piano), BBC Philharmonic
Orchestra, Vassily Sinaisky, Royal Albert Hall, London, 12.8.2008 (BBr)
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Mozart. 18. 8.2008 (HS)
Glorious Gershwin:
Viv McLean (piano), Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra, Robert Ziegler, Cadogan Hall, London, 14.8.2008 (BBr)
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