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MunichOf One Blood

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Dean: Of One Blood
Markus Stenz; Claus Guth; Bavarian State Opera; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Michael Bauer; Bayerisches Staatsorchester

SingaporeMarkus Stenz & Vadym Kholodenko - Schumann and Bruckner 7

Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Schumann, Bruckner
Singapore Symphony Orchestra; Markus Stenz; Vadym Kholodenko

BolognaMarkus Stenz

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Panfili, Beethoven
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna; Markus Stenz; Coro di Teatro Comunale di Bologna

DetroitFrom Darkness to Light: Brahms’s Symphony No. 1

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Coleridge-Taylor, Mozart, Brahms
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Markus Stenz; Fabian Müller
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Markus Stenz conducts three monumental 20th-century scores in Seoul

Markus Stenz and the KBS Symphony Orchestra © KBS Symphony Orchestra
Propulsive Prokofiev from pianist Dmitry Shishkin between Ravel’s hypnotic minimalism and Schoenberg’s late-Romantic complexity. 
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A fine triple bill with the Philharmonia Zürich

Philharmonia Zürich © Monika Rittershaus
Under Markus Stenz, the Philharmonia Zürich orchestra give stunning performances of works by Strauss, Bartók, and Mahler in the city’s historic opera house.
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Thrilling Mahler 2 from Markus Stenz and the CBSO to close the season

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony is something of a calling card for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, here originally billed as Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s final concert as musical director. 
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New Meistersinger succeeds musically despite the muddled production

Set in a 1930s music school, Sergio Morabito, Jossi Wieler and Anna Viebrick's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Deutsche Oper Berlin has some inspirational ideas but they often get in the way of the music.
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Perfect symbiosis of words and music in Fin de partie

György Kurtág’s long awaited opera Fin de partie gets a second run in Amsterdam after its La Scala premiere, with the same excellent cast, conductor and production team.

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Beckett at La Scala: world première of Kurtág's Fin de partie

Never before has human impotence been so cruelly portrayed on stage.
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AmsterdamSunday Morning Concerts: Beethoven

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Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest); Markus Stenz; Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor); Aga Mikolaj; Kristina Hammarström; Zoltán Nyári

AmsterdamSunday Morning Concerts: Mozart's Great Mass

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Mozart: Mass no. 18 in C minor "Great", K427 (K417a)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest); Markus Stenz; Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor); Lenneke Ruiten; Sophie Harmsen; Attilio Glaser

AmsterdamSaturday Matinees: Mahler and Braunfels

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Mahler, Braunfels
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest); Markus Stenz; Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor); State Choir Latvija; Meagan Miller; Roy Cornelius Smith
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Sin City: Mahagonny lives

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Dutch National Opera © Pascal Victor
German conductor Markus Stenz talks Kurt Weill, Bertold Brecht and the potency of their final collaboration in today’s political climate.

Creating the moment: Markus Stenz

Ahead of his live-streamed performance of Beethoven's Ninth with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, we caught up with conductor Markus Stenz.