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Dark sound, light subtext in Shostakovich Fifth at Carnegie Hall

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Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 26 October 2019
Widmann, Con Brio, concert overture for orchestra
Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Shostakovich, Symphony no. 5 in D minor, Op.47
Leonidas Kavakos, Violin
Valery Gergiev, Director, Conductor
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