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Klaus Mäkelä and the Orchestre de Paris paint vivid pictures in the Musikverein

Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris
© Julia Wesely
Klaus Mäkelä conducts the Orchestre de Paris
© Julia Wesely
By Mark Pullinger, 24 February 2025
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“a classy Parisian gallery, perhaps the Musée d'Orsay”
Reviewed at Musikverein: Großer Saal, Vienna on 23 February 2025
Programme
Ravel, Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)
Stravinsky, Petrushka (1947)
Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Performers
Orchestre de Paris
Klaus Mäkelä, Conductor
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.