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Pleasing Rihm and Dvorak from Capuçon and the Symphoniker, but 'concept' falters

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Vienna on 9 January 2015
Rihm, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Dvořák, Symphony no. 8 in G major, Op.88
Renaud Capuçon, Violin
Philippe Jordan, Conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Resplendent Strauss from Canellakis and the Wiener Symphoniker
*****
Wiener Symphoniker parties in style at the Concertgebouw
****1
Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien
****1
Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma
****1
A spectacular Freischütz in Bregenz
***11
Love in time of the drug wars: a contemporary Tancredi at Bregenz
***11
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