Event listing: Mahler Chamber Orchestra @Musikfest Berlin | Philharmonie: Großer Saal | Mon 2 Sep 2013 at 20:00

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Philharmonie: Großer Saal1 Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin, D10785, Germany

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Programme

Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Prelude and scherzo for string octet, Op.11
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	Phaedra, Op.93
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Symphony no. 14, Op.135

Performers

Teodor Currentzis	Conductor
Angela Denoke	Soprano
Pyotr Migunov	Bass
Mahler Chamber Orchestra

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Oratorio for the end of the world: Teodor Currentzis and Mahler Chamber Orchestra at Musikfest Berlin

Dan Wang, 2nd September

As my seatmate remarked to me after the concert, it is strange and wonderful to hear Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, who befriended each other late in life, begin to sound alike in their old age while remaining unmistakably themselves. I agreed.

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