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  In Brief: Cold Snap Edition

  Posted: 12-February-2012, 6:45pm CET by Charles T. Downey

  Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to good things in Blogville and Beyond. L'Arpeggiata, dir. Christina Pluhar, Los Pajaros Perdidos, with P. Jaroussky Paul McCreesh directs the Gabrieli Consort in a performance of Haydn's The Seasons, with soprano Christiane Karg, tenor Allan Clayton, and bass-baritone Christopher Purves, from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. [France Musique] The

  
  

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  From Inside Shostakovich to God's Doorstep in Under Two Hours

  Posted: 12-February-2012, 9:01am CET by jfl

  Many thanks to Robert R. Reilly for this review from the Kennedy Center.On Friday evening, the National Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach repeated its program of Shostakovich?s Violin Concerto No. 1 and the Bruckner Ninth Symphony. The evening served to underline the magnitude of the gift that Eschenbach has brought to Washington, and of the fine artistry of violinist Nadja