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“the performance felt like music-making from an old world”
Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 28 November 2019
Grieg, Holberg Suite, Op.40
Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Dvořák, Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op.95
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Conductor
Sayaka Shoji, Violin
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