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Work: The Death of Oscar

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ComposerMacMillan, Sir James (b. 1959)
PeriodContemporary
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A familiar-sounding new commission and an unusual approach to Beethoven

James MacMillan’s The Death of Oscar receives its American première under Stéphane Denève, while Paul Lewis is the soloist in a thought-provoking account of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3.
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