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In the Brahms Saal, Marc-André Hamelin juxtaposes three Russian composers with Schubert’s long misunderstood final piano sonata.

At the age of 88, pianist Paul Badura-Skoda continues to explore the central Viennese repertoire at Vienna's Musikverein through a distinctive and idiosyncratic approach. 

If Vienna is the holy temple of classical music (Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss, Bruckner and Mahler all spent large tracts of their careers here), then the Musikverein is its holy of holies. Just soaking in all that history makes a visit here into a special occasion, and the heavily gilt halls are as opulent and redolent of empire as you might imagine.

Bei Antonini findet das nicht vom Wolf gerissene, scharfsehende Huhn Trüffel, Haydns Schätze der Natur. Vom Ensemble kompromisslos kontrastvoll in Fleisch und Blut übergegangen gespielt, auch aus der Tradition Farinas.