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Latvian Radio Choir resplendent in Gregorian chant and the Eton Choir Book

By Jonathan Sutherland, 11 July 2017
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Reviewed at St Peter’s Church, Riga on 6 July 2017
Programme
Anonymous, Gregorian chants
Works by Browne
Works by Sutton
Works by Horwood
Performers
Latvian Radio Choir
Simone van den Dool, Conductor
Pēteris Vaickovskis, Conductor
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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.