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Mezzo Sopranio Sasha Cooke "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen' (Gustav Mahler) conducted by Vasily Petrenkho, with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein’s 'Somewhere' from West Side Story sung by Sasha Cooke

Max Bruch: Kol Nidrei ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Mischa Maisky cellist ∙ Paavo Järvi conductor

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, with the late pianist Lars Vogt Concertgebouw Orchestra, under the baton of Mariss Jansons

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Carlos Kleiber Conducting Wagner's - Liebestod "Tristan Und Isolde" Bayreuth 1976

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Receives The Sir Winston Churchill Award 2022

I was ambushed with this honorary plaque at the Association of Food Industry Convention

Handel: La Resurrezione, HWV. 47 Harrowing of Hell (Disserratevi, O Porte d'Averno) with Collegium 1704, cond. by Maestro Václav Luks​, Soprano Martina Janková

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A Concert for Ukraine 🇺🇦 at the Metropolitan Opera

Shostakovich "Symphony No 7" Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting

As a young boy, I remember seeing a documentary with my father of Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting Beethoven's 9th for Adolf Hitler's birthday. It perhaps unfairly tempered my childish exuberant pleasure in listening to his Brahms 1st with the Berliner Phil. The Putin music mob survived the 2014 Crimea - Donbas outrage, with scarcely a ruffle, apart from a few plucky principled demonstrators in front of Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera. The band played on. Later, in my usual perch over the pit at the Met, I watched Maestro Valery Gergiev, unshaven and looking hung over, conduct an indifferent Dutchman. Politics aside, I felt, apart from the sweat, he oozed lazy entitlement. On FB, the usual absurdities arise - these are 'artists' somehow above politics, or even ordinary civic decencies. They must not be demeaned or cancelled by some crude bureaucracy inquiring where they stand. I will miss Anna Netrebko's Lady Macbeth, her fatuous 'anti-war' remarks and nouveau-rich fashions on instagram, less so. Alex Ross has done a good job of sorting it out. Meantime, where's Toscanini when you need him?

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/valery-gergiev-and-the-nightmare-of-music-under-putin?fbclid=IwAR3yHrZxR4QCQEHpVDSkqlCskUiq7G3Ch6gUYhZjcSt3O-3GcKtIGnrZuSQ

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and orchestra performing the Ukrainian National Anthem before last night's premiere of Don Carlos.

"I've Been to a Marvellous Party" by Noël Coward, performed by Patricia ...

Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes - Richter/Mozgovenko/Moscow Quarte...