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Robert Levin deconstructs Mozart
Mozart's stumbling block
As the pianist/professor Robert Levin demonstrated, everything came easily to Mozart the young genius until he had to tackle fugue composition. For the first time, he had to push his imagination. From this process, Mozart's true voice emerged.
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Piffaro at the court of Ferrara
When violinists roamed the streets
Philadelphia's own Renaissance wind band joins forces with a traveling violin band to recreate the first outbursts of the modern multi-section orchestra.

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Orchestra's two flute concertos
Inspiration sans charisma
With Charles Dutoit sidelined, the Orchestra's principal flutist, Jeffrey Khaner, provided the necessary star power by performing premieres of two flute concertos, one of them nearly 400 years old.

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Chamber Orchestra: Solzhenitsyn returns (2nd review)
Solzhenitsyn's balanced return
Ignat Solzhenitsyn returned to his old stomping ground to lead the Chamber Orchestra through two well-balanced classics and a moving mid-century experiment with 12-tone music.

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My personal stake in "Boris Godunov'
Boris Godunov and my ancestors
To you, Boris Godunov is a convoluted opera about a power struggle among Russian madmen a long time ago. To me, it holds a possible key to my family's history.

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Solzhenitsyn plays Mozart for non-purists (1st review)
What did Mozart really want?
Are Mozart's scores sacrosanct as they are written? Or are they an invitation to play 18th-Century jazz? Ignat Solzhenitsyn, appearing as piano soloist and conductor laureate with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, left no doubt about his answer.

Pianist Andreas Haefliger at the Perelman
A thing for Wagner
The young German pianist Andreas Haefliger didn't seem fully engaged when he played Mozart and Liszt. Only when he got to Wagner did he seem to catch fire.

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Jeremy Gill works at Settlement (2nd review)
Book of hours, book of life
Composer Jeremy Gill placed two of his own works side by side with pieces by two of the 20th Century's greatest composers and tapped into the deeper currents of the classical tradition.

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Jeremy Gill works at Settlement (1st review)
Jeremy Gill's ancient sounds and rituals
Jeremy Gill's music is particularly concerned with sound qualities, to the extent that he'll move his performers to different parts of the hall during the course of a work. It seems to be a signature for this promising young composer.
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London Symphony plays Mahler's Seventh
Mahler's ugly duckling
Mahler's Seventh Symphony is one of the most rarely performed of his scores, in part because it lacks (or eschews) the overall dynamic structure of his more popular works. But it's a satisfying work in the right interpretive hands, and Valery Gergiev was at least intermittently successful in it with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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