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In Istanbul, Beethoven's Violin Concerto comes with cannon and muezzin obbligato

By Jonathan Sutherland, 05 June 2017
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“Pogostkina's semi-quaver runs were meticulously even, doubling stopping exact”
Reviewed at Hagia Eirene Museum, Istanbul on 1 June 2017
Programme
Beethoven, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61
Bach, Violin partita no. 3 in E major, BWV1006: Gavotte en Rondeau
Beethoven, Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55
Performers
London Chamber Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green, Conductor
Alina Pogostkina, Violin
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Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland
Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.