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Yuja Wang returns to the New York Philharmonic with Rautavaara’s dazzling First Piano Concerto in a probing program curated and conducted by Thomas Adès.

The combined forces of the Gewandhaus and Boston Symphony unite under Andris Nelsons for a searing Leningrad Symphony, while the Quatuor Danel tackles the string quartets. 

The Brodsky Quartet deliver deeply moving performances of all 15 Shostakovich string quartets, with added value and insight from writers Elizabeth Wilson and Marina Frolova-Walker. 

How does an admirer of Shostakovich's symphonic works react to a performance of two of his string quartets? Well, if it's the Borodin Quartet that is playing, the experience will most definitely be a changing experience. 

Un violoncelle qui domine la scène du haut d'une estrade, le reste du quatuor jouant debout, le diable au corps, des tablettes tactiles qui remplacent les partitions : le Cuarteto Casals ne fait rien comme les autres. Mais leurs interprétations de Schubert, Beethoven et Chostakovitch ouvrent, par leur humanité, sur des profondeurs plus secrètes des trois compositeurs.

Performed chronologically in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe’s candlelit Jacobean theatre, the 15 Shostakovich string quartets made an astonishing impression in such concentrated form.