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When news of the discovery of Stravinsky's Funeral Song reached the classical music world, a near-revolution of excitement took place.

Rossen Gergov conducts a Slavonic Dance sandwich with Haydn and Ligeti filling, Tasmin Little starring in the latter's Violin Concerto.

For last Sunday’s concert, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony chose a programme with a distinctly Eastern European flavour spanning almost a century and a half. They began with Liszt’s Prometheus, an overture to a set of choral pieces Liszt wrote for a festival celebrating the life and works of German literary philosopher Gottfried von Herder in 1850.

Amsterdam hat ein neues Festival, dessen erste Edition György Ligeti gewidmet ist, und bei dem Pierre-Laurent Aimard im Mittelpunkt des Klavierkonzertes stand.