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Violinist Shunske Sato leads the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in an historically informed performance of early 19th-century music, including a spectacular rendering of Louis Spohr's Violin Concerto no. 8 in A minor.

Soprano Claron McFadden's pellucid voice tremendously contributed to the structural and sonic richness of Widmann's Versuch über die Fuge.

Das Programm in der Tonhalle Zürich ist ganz auf den Music Director zugeschnitten: eine Streichersymphonie von Mendelssohn, ein lyrisches Solostück von Vaughan Williams und die Pastorale von Beethoven.