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Isabelle Faust's spiritually-charged Luigi Nono at Musikfest Berlin

By Sam Johnstone, 05 September 2016
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Reviewed at Philharmonie: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin on 2 September 2016
Programme
Nono, La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura
Manoury, Le temps, mode d'emploi
Performers
Isabelle Faust, Violin
André Richard, Sound Design
GrauSchumacher, Piano
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Sam Johnstone
Sam Johnstone
Sam Johnstone is a musician and writer based in Berlin. He has written on classical, contemporary and world music for Sinfini Music, The Cusp and World Music Network, and about the influence of the avant-garde on contemporary music in Germany and Japan whilst studying at Oxford University and SOAS, University of London. Sam blogs at www.spljohnstone.com and tweets at @spljohnstone