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Jakub Hrůša's striking debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

By Olga de Kort, 03 December 2015
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“a striking performance marked by freshness and fever”
Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 29 November 2015
Programme
Smetana, Má vlast: Vltava (The Moldau)
Smetana, Má vlast: Šárka
Shostakovich, Violin Concerto no. 2 in C sharp minor, Op.129
Janáček, Taras Bulba
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša, Conductor
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Violin
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Olga de Kort
Olga de Kort
Musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (The Netherlands) studied in Russia (piano, culture sciences), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, organ) where she has lived from 1998. She is active as a music journalist, lecturer in music history and culture and as a freelance musician. She writes for Piano Bulletin, Pianist, Luister, Preludium, De Klank, Het Orgel, Muziek&Liturgie, Kunstzone and Bachtrack. Besides her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a website about Russian music in the Netherlands. At this moment she is working on a book about Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and on a biography of Russian singer Anna El Tour.