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A conductor's fascination with the spring-themed works of two contemporary composers leads back in time to the Spring Symphony of Robert Schumann. 

Missy Mazzoli's Dark with Excessive Bright is the centrepiece of the Omega Ensemble's contribution to the festival's imaginative chamber music series. 

Riccardo Muti brought a Verdian quality to Brahms’ Second Symphony, adding a certain Italian volatility and declamatory grandeur to the music.

The Brooklyn Festival, a week-long celebration of the new music scene from New York City’s “most dynamic borough”, was launched on Tuesday 16 April with a Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles.Interestingly enough, the festival came hard on the heels of another festival which ended Sunday, the Hear Now Music Festival.

Thomas Larchers neues Werk fesselt die Aufmerksamkeit und überzeugt durch Mut zum Einfachen, sodass man sich auf ein Wiederhören freut.