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Breaking the silence: an Orchestre Métropolitain thanksgiving after the Corona-storm

By Mark Pullinger, 18 September 2020
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“the elation at playing together again was palpable, Nézet-Séguin a beaming bundle of energy”
Reviewed at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Bourgie Hall, Montreal on 18 September 2020
Programme
Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral", Op.68
Beethoven, Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67
Performers
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, 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.