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Time stands still in Vilde Frang’s Elgar as the British leg of Pappano’s LSO tenure begins

By Mark Pullinger, 12 September 2024

In an evening pairing two English classics, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symhony Orchestra in Elgar’s Violin Concerto and an out-of-this-world account of Holst’s The Planets.

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London

12 Sep 2024

Time stands still in Vilde Frang’s Elgar

By Mark Pullinger

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Sea Pictures: Oramo and the BBCSO in contrasting, yet linked, British works

By Roy Westbrook, 24 May 2024

When is a work actually finished ? Only when composer, publisher, editors and performers agree that it is... Sakari Oramo conducts the London premiere of Knussen's Cleveland Pictures.

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London

24 May 2024

Sea Pictures: Oramo and the BBCSO in contrasting British works

By Roy Westbrook

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Musical passports issued by Oramo, Frang and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

By Alexander Hall, 20 January 2024

Each of the three pieces by Andrew Norman, Stravinsky and Sibelius had an unlocking principle at its heart. Sakari Oramo, his soloist Vilde Frang and his BBC players proved powerful advocates.

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London

20 Jan 2024

Musical passports issued by Oramo, Frang and the BBCSO

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A 500-year ascent: Bayerische Staatsorchester scales the heights at the Barbican

By Roy Westbrook, 18 September 2023

How long does it take to build a truly great orchestra, supreme in both opera house and concert hall? Half a millennium should do it.

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London

18 Sep 2023

The Bayerische Staatsorchester scales the heights at the Barbican

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Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle

A Basque banquet at the Festival Ravel

By Mark Valencia, 30 August 2023

Vilde Frang and Bertrand Chamayou join the Belcea Quartet for a musical feast including Chausson's sumptuous Concert.

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Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle

30 Aug 2023

A Basque banquet at the Festival Ravel

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Budapest

Meticulous Bartók from Vilde Frang and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

By Zoltán Szabó, 14 November 2022

Iván Fischer mixes things up for Schubert's “Great C major” Symphony with an unusual seating arrangement.

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Budapest

14 Nov 2022

Meticulous Bartók from Vilde Frang and the Budapest Festival Orchestra

By Zoltán Szabó

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Frang and Bringuier rock the Tonhalle with Berg and Rachmaninov

By Sarah Batschelet, 20 January 2022

Two markedly different sound worlds, both dating from 1935, recently made for a stunning concert at Zurich’s historic Tonhalle, where the juxtaposition was as curious as it was sonorous.

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Zurich

20 Jan 2022

Frang and Bringuier rock the Tonhalle with Berg and Rachmaninov

By Sarah Batschelet

Cologne

Raising a glass to greatness: Gürzenich Orchestra's splendid Stravinsky marathon

By Roy Westbrook, 06 April 2021

The players gathered at the bar for a Scotch as the credits rolled. After three hours and twenty minutes of note-taking, I decided to follow suit.

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Cologne

06 Apr 2021

Raising a glass to greatness: Gürzenich's splendid Stravinsky marathon

By Roy Westbrook

Cologne

Musical contrasts from Fabien Gabel and the Gürzenich Orchester Köln

By Phillip Nones, 16 March 2021

In Cologne, Stravinsky's neoclassicism comes up against the echt-romanticism of Schreker and Korngold, ending in a draw.

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Cologne

16 Mar 2021

Musical contrasts from Fabien Gabel and the Gürzenich Orchester Köln

By Phillip Nones

Loss and foreboding from Pappano and the LSO

By Chris Garlick, 15 March 2020

In these difficult times a reduced audience witnessed a concert of music that didn’t exactly offer much solace, but which possessed a powerful sense of loss and foreboding that seemed entirely timely.

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London

15 Mar 2020

Loss and foreboding from Pappano and the LSO

By Chris Garlick

A triple bill makes musical explosives in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 05 February 2020

From the podium, Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare’s fine direction and unmitigated athleticism were part and parcel of the excitement.

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Zurich

05 Feb 2020

A triple bill makes musical explosives in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet

Dublin

Violinist Frang and conductor Măcelaru impress equally in an all Russian programme

By Andrew Larkin, 22 February 2019

A lively, muscular account of Stravinsky's Violin Concerto by Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang while Măcelaru conducts a convincing Manfred Symphony by Tchaikovsky.

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Dublin

22 Feb 2019

Frang and Măcelaru impress equally in an all Russian programme.

By Andrew Larkin

Brussels

Fiery Prokofiev but lacklustre Britten with the National Orchestra of Belgium

By Alan Yu, 05 October 2018

Fiery Prokofiev but lacklustre Britten with the National Orchestra of Belgium.

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Brussels

05 Oct 2018

Fiery Prokofiev but lacklustre Britten in Brussels

By Alan Yu

Antwerp

Radiant Vilde Frang opens Antwerp season

By Marc Haegeman, 09 September 2018

Attentive to the dynamics and tempi, Frang meshed her violin with the orchestra, naturally coming into the footlights or receding into an accompanying role when required. In effect, the performance had a feel of an improvisation.

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Antwerp

09 Sep 2018

Radiant Vilde Frang opens Antwerp season

By Marc Haegeman

Cleveland

Storgårds leads Cleveland Orchestra in intriguing Blossom program

By Sam Jacobson, 15 July 2018

Under the baton of John Storgårds, Vilde Frang made her Cleveland Orchestra debut in Britten's Violin Concerto, with works of Antheil and Schumann rounding out a diverse selection.

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Cleveland

15 Jul 2018

Storgårds leads Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom

By Sam Jacobson

Los Angeles

Salonen revives Wing On Wing... and it flies!

By Laurence Vittes, 16 February 2018

Salonen's tribute to Gehry, Yasuhisa Toyota and Deborah Borda seems to come more from his brilliant visual palette than his emotional heart.

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Los Angeles

16 Feb 2018

Salonen revives Wing On Wing... and it flies!

By Laurence Vittes

Vilde Frang's impresses, but Salonen's Finnish independence celebrations miss the mark

By David Karlin, 07 December 2017

The celebrations 100 years of Finnish Independence move to the Royal Festival Hall, with an all-Sibelius programme and Esa-Pekka Salonen: the highlight is soloist Vilde Frang's playing of the Violin Concerto.

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London

07 Dec 2017

Salonen's independence celebrations miss the mark

By David Karlin

Birmingham

Sublimely lyrical Beethoven in Birmingham under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

By Peter Marks, 16 November 2017

The Lithuanian conductor made Beethoven really sing while violinist, Vilde Frang's spirited interpretation of Elgar's Violin Concerto did not seem quite the finished article.

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Birmingham

16 Nov 2017

Sublimely lyrical Beethoven in Birmingham

By Peter Marks

Prom 26: Paavo Järvi’s baton permeates a nexus of tight-knit shapes

By Sophia Lambton, 03 August 2017

The conductor guided us on a tour through a museum where Erkki-Sven Tüür, Mozart and Brahms reside in spheres of different shades and spaces – and yet each remain enclosed in a prefigured structure.

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London

03 Aug 2017

Järvi’s baton permeates a nexus of tight-knit shapes

By Sophia Lambton

Classy Bach playing from Vilde Frang at Kings Place

By David Karlin, 29 April 2017

Vilde Frang galvanises the English Chamber Orchestra, with the slow movement of Bach's E major violin concerto proving the highlight of the evening.

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London

29 Apr 2017

Classy Bach from Vilde Frang

By David Karlin

Birmingham

Matinée fantastique: the CBSO in high spirits under Nicholas Collon

By Hedy Mühleck, 19 October 2016

The CBSO pairs Berlioz' opium-fuelled extravaganza with a 20th-century favourite starring Vilde Frang.

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Birmingham

19 Oct 2016

Matinée fantastique in Birmingham

By Hedy Mühleck

Milan

Minkowski's aimless Mozart with Filarmonica della Scala

By Courtney Smith, 19 July 2015

An all-Mozart Filarmonica della Scala concert with soloists Vilde Frang and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller under conductor Marc Minkowski's lacked cohesion.

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Milan

19 Jul 2015

Minkowski's aimless Mozart with Filarmonica della Scala

By Courtney Smith

Lockenhaus

Destination Lockenhaus: mecca for lesser-known musical gems

By Alexandra Ivanoff, 09 July 2015

Discovering Enescu through the lens of his folkloric genes was the beginning of the musical adventure that awaits listeners in the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria.

Lockenhaus

09 Jul 2015

Destination Lockenhaus: mecca for lesser-known musical gems

By Alexandra Ivanoff

Edinburgh

Vilde Frang: Urgent articulation in Britten

By Alan Coady, 02 May 2014

RSNO, Søndergård and Frang perform a thoughtful programme of dislocation and migration: Dean, Britten and Dvořák.

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Edinburgh

02 May 2014

Vilde Frang: Urgent articulation in Britten

By Alan Coady

Prom 31: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds play coronation music, Bruch and Korngold

By Julia Savage, 06 August 2013

Prom 31 seems to have been loosely based around a royal theme, with two of several nods at this year’s Proms to the Coronation anniversary: explicitly, in the case of William Walton’s Orb and Sceptre march, which he wrote for the 1953 ceremony, and obliquely by way of Edmund Rubbra’s Ode to the Queen, which the BBC commissioned for the Coronation celebrations.

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London

06 Aug 2013

Prom 31: BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds play coronation music, Bruch and Korngold

By Julia Savage

Verbier

Rencontres inédites prove hit and miss at the Verbier Festival

By David Allen, 31 July 2013

The Recontres inédites series is what makes the Verbier Festival famous among aficionados. The title translates – roughly – as “Unprecedented Meetings”, and that is certainly what the concerts represent: world-class soloists brought together on minimal but far from non-existent rehearsal time to play chamber music.

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Verbier

31 Jul 2013

Rencontres inédites prove hit and miss at the Verbier Festival

By David Allen

Proms Chamber Music 1: Youthful duo Vilde Frang and Michail Lifits open the chamber series

By Nahoko Gotoh, 15 July 2013

On Monday lunchtime, the rising Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang and the Tashkent-born pianist Michail Lifits launched this year’s Proms Chamber Music series in the relatively intimate space of Cadogan Hall.

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London

15 Jul 2013

Proms Chamber Music 1: Youthful duo Vilde Frang and Michail Lifits open the chamber series

By Nahoko Gotoh

Oxford

Dark fantasies at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival

By Katy Wright, 05 October 2012

An introductory reading by local writer Philip Pullman was an appropriate introduction to the “Dusk to Dawn” concert, one of the last in this year’s Oxford Chamber Music Festival (themed “Fairytales and Fantasy”). The collision of a light-hearted surface with darker undertones was not just in Pullman’s retelling of the Grimm stories, but pervaded Artistic Director Priya Mitchell’s programming.

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Oxford

05 Oct 2012

Dark fantasies at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival

By Katy Wright

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Vilde Frang, Leonidas Kavakos et le Philhar' sont de mèche à Radio France

By Pierre Michel, 10 January 2025

Vilde Frang a brillé dans le Concerto pour violon de Schumann, avant de laisser l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France et Leonidas Kavakos prendre la lumière dans la Symphonie n° 3 de Beethoven.

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Paris

10 Jan 2025

Vilde Frang, Kavakos et le Philhar' sont de mèche à Radio France

By Pierre Michel

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Boulogne-Billancourt

Vilde Frang et le DSO impériaux à la Seine Musicale

By Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 17 October 2024

Dans le rare Concerto d'Elgar, la violoniste se hisse à la hauteur des monstres sacrés de l'histoire de son instrument. Quant à la phalange berlinoise, elle se montre superlative dans la Deuxième Symphonie de Sibelius.

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Boulogne-Billancourt

17 Oct 2024

Vilde Frang et le DSO impériaux à la Seine Musicale

By Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut

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Gstaad

Antonio Pappano, maestro de l’été et du LSO au Gstaad Menuhin Festival

By Romain Daroles, 30 August 2024

Lors de deux soirées de clôture grandioses, le futur chef principal de l'orchestre anglais a créé un ascenseur émotionnel rarement vécu de mémoire de spectateur.

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Gstaad

30 Aug 2024

Antonio Pappano, maestro de l’été et du LSO à Gstaad

By Romain Daroles

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Les mondes russes captivants du Philhar' de Radio France, Mikko Franck et Vilde Frang

By Pierre Michel, 16 March 2024

Dans Borodine, Chostakovitch et Stravinsky, le Philhar', son directeur musical finlandais et la violoniste norvégienne invitée ont montré toute la richesse du répertoire russe.

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Paris

16 Mar 2024

Les mondes russes captivants du Philhar' avec Vilde Frang

By Pierre Michel

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Authentizität: Vilde Frang spielt in Zürich Bartóks Zweites Violinkonzert

By Thomas Schacher, 07 February 2024

Béla Bartóks Zweites Violinkonzert ist wegen seines sperrigen Charakters und seiner technischen Herausforderungen bei den Geigern nicht das beliebteste. Vilde Frang interpretiert es, als ob es für sie komponiert wäre.

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Zurich

07 Feb 2024

Authentizität: Vilde Frang spielt Bartóks Zweites Violinkonzert

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Berlin

Das Leid und die Hoffnung: das Bayerische Staatsorchester beim Musikfest Berlin

By Svenja Koch, 11 September 2023

Gastspiel beim Musikfest: Vladimir Jurowski dirigiert unter anderem Bergs Violinkonzert und Strauss' Alpensinfonie.

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Berlin

11 Sep 2023

Das Leid und die Hoffnung: das Bayerische Staatsorchester in Berlin

By Svenja Koch

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La Symphonie alpestre sans sommets de l'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France

By Erwan Gentric, 16 June 2023

Sous les mains de Vilde Frang, un concerto d'Elgar à la fois lyrique et énergique, noble et pathétique, sage et tourmentée. La symphonie alpestre de Strauss souffre de manque de nuances dynamiques.

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Paris

16 Jun 2023

La Symphonie alpestre sans sommets du Philhar'

By Erwan Gentric

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Brussels

Les orages printaniers de Vilde Frang et Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla à Bozar

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 22 March 2023

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla et les musiciens du City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ont manqué de trébucher dans Schumann mais ont porté Elgar au sommet avec Vilde Frang.

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Brussels

22 Mar 2023

Les orages printaniers de Vilde Frang et Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla à Bozar

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone

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Munich

Heller Elfentanz, düsterer Trauermarsch: 500 Jahre Bayerisches Staatsorchester mit Zubin Mehta

By Michael Vieth, 06 February 2023

Auf apollinischen wie dionysischen Spuren bei einer üppig ausgestatteten Uraufführung von Minas Borboudakis.

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Munich

06 Feb 2023

500 Jahre Bayerisches Staatsorchester mit Zubin Mehta

By Michael Vieth

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Vilde Frang deja huella en Madrid junto a Orozco-Estrada y la Sinfónica de Viena

By Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 02 March 2022

La Wiener Symphoniker, una de las orquestas más sólidas de Europa, visitó Madrid con un programa dedicado a Beethoven.

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Madrid

02 Mar 2022

Vilde Frang deja huella en Madrid

By Jorge Baeza Stanicic

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Barcelona

El lirismo historicista de la Sinfónica de Viena con Andrés Orozco-Estrada y Vilde Frang

By Maria Sánchez, 28 February 2022

Tradición y espíritu van de la mano en esta revisitación beethoveniana por parte de una de las orquestas europeas más destacadas, con parada en L’Auditori en su gira internacional.

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Barcelona

28 Feb 2022

El lirismo historicista de la Sinfónica de Viena

By Maria Sánchez

Berlin

Ein liebenswürdiges Konzert mit dem Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Berlin

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 05 October 2020

Das Chamber Orchestra of Europe und Sir Simon Rattle verzaubern in der Philharmonie mit Beethoven und Haydn.

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Berlin

05 Oct 2020

Ein liebenswürdiges Konzert mit dem COE in Berlin

By Sebastian Urmoneit

Jurowski y la LPO revelan elegancia y potencia en la grandiosa Quinta de Mahler

By David Santana Cañas, 27 November 2019

Jurowski y la London Philarmonic Orchestra confrontan a un delicado Britten con un pasional y desbordado Mahler.

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Madrid

27 Nov 2019

Elegancia y potencia en la grandiosa Quinta de Mahler

By David Santana Cañas

À Radio France, Vilde Frang et le Philharmonique enflamment Stravinsky

By Clara Leonardi, 26 September 2019

Curieux programme pour le Philhar' : de Rameau, Bach, Mendelssohn et Stravinsky, c'est ce dernier qu'on retiendra. Au violon, Vilde Frang déploie une énergie phénoménale, soutenue par un orchestre enthousiaste.

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Paris

26 Sep 2019

À Radio France, Vilde Frang et le Philharmonique enflamment Stravinsky

By Clara Leonardi

À Radio France, Bertrand Chamayou rend hommage à Beethoven

By Tristan Labouret, 31 March 2019

Artiste en résidence à Radio France cette saison, le pianiste Bertrand Chamayou y donnait un concert-hommage à Beethoven avec Vilde Frang, Sol Gabetta et l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

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Paris

31 Mar 2019

À Radio France, Bertrand Chamayou rend hommage à Beethoven

By Tristan Labouret

El ensueño de un Danubio diferente: Gustavo Gimeno y la Philharmonique du Luxembourg

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 15 November 2018

Una compacta y compenetrada Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg bajo la atenta dirección de Gustavo Gimeno ofreció obras de Mahler y Bartok con las solistas Vilde Frang y Miah Persson.

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Madrid

15 Nov 2018

Ensueño de un Danubio diferente: Gimeno y la Orchestre du Luxembourg

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Vilde Frang cautiva en el Auditorio Nacional

By Ramón del Buey Cañas, 12 November 2018

Acompañada por la Philharmonique du Luxembourg y su director titular, Gustavo Gimeno, la violinista Vilde Frang cautivó con una ejecución sublime del Concierto en re mayor, de Beethoven. El programa se completó con la Quinta sinfonía de Tchaikovsky.

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Madrid

12 Nov 2018

Vilde Frang cautiva en el Auditorio Nacional

By Ramón del Buey Cañas

Vielfalt, anrührende Herzenswärme und neutraler Feinschliff: Vilde Frang mit dem BBCSO

By Rolf Kyburz, 24 March 2018

Sakari Oramo und das BBCSO boten mit Vilde Frang als Solistin eine breite Palette an Werken, von Beethoven über Britten, hin zu Anna Clynes.

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Zurich

24 Mar 2018

Anrührende Herzenswärme: Vilde Frang in Zürich

By Rolf Kyburz