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Performer: IRCAM

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WienKlangforum Wien / Vitrenko / Cook / Ircam / Schwarz

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Elena Schwarz; Klangforum Wien; Viktoriia Vitrenko; Allison Cook; IRCAM
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Neuwirth’s Le Encantadas in Lucerne

At the Lucerne Festival, composer Olga Neuwirth, Ensemble Contemporain and a sound team from IRCAM recently shone in a theatrical performance of an complex and ocean shore-inspired score.
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Prom 13: Barenboim's Beethoven and Barenboim's Boulez

Onwards Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra went, then, jumping forwards from a rousing Fifth to the Eighth, once again playing the later, even-numbered half of a ‘pair’ before the odd. Asked why the Seventh was much preferred publicly to the Eighth, Beethoven is apocryphally to have replied: “because the Eighth is so much better.
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Prom 10: Barenboim, Beethoven and Boulez, part two

Programming works by Pierre Boulez alongside a high-profile Beethoven symphony cycle is an easy way to give exposure to the strikingly modern works of the Frenchman, but on seeing a substantial chunk of the audience disappear for an early drink before tonight's Boulez, I wondered if the Beethoven was perhaps too reliable a foil, leaving people little incentive to stay.
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