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Jeff Rehbach, the director of the Vermont Choral Union, speaks with VPR's Joe Goetz about their upcoming performance at St. Michael's College in Colchester on Sunday.
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The pianist's new album features some of the most difficult etudes ever written for solo piano by the Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti. "Ligeti took the piano to places it had never been before," he says, "and makes demands of the pianist and the mind that had never been made before."
The outstanding Cambini-Paris Quartet uncovers the neglected chamber music of Félicien David.
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Violinist Gil Shaham joined conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra for Brahms' Violin Concerto plus the Shostakovich Sixth and the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's 'Laterna Magica.'
The Nashville Symphony Orchestra brings a wonderfully weird program to Carnegie Hall, including the New York premiere of a new electric violin concerto by Terry Riley, featuring the superb soloist Tracy Silverman.
The Houston Symphony brings a biting all-Shostakovich program to Carnegie Hall for the Spring for Music festival — including the very rarely heard satirical cantata The Anti-Formalist Rayok.
Watch an intensely physical and deeply felt performance by a soprano who brings operatic elegance and rock glam to music by Handel, Dowland and Monteverdi at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York.
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A sad day in classical music. Joe Goetz will feature Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Ravel and Schubert later this afternoon on VPR Classical. May 18, 2012
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