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23.2.15

Dutoit and the Suisse Romande


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V. d'Indy, Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français (inter alia), M. Helmchen, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, M. Janowski
(PentaTone, 2011)

[Review]
Charles T. Downey, Geneva orchestra at Kennedy Center shines with Debussy, Stravinsky (Washington Post, February 23)
When Charles Dutoit filled the leadership void at the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2008, he came to Washington for four consecutive years with that ensemble, always to great acclaim. On Saturday afternoon, Washington Performing Arts presented him again, this time with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, in a blockbuster concert at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

The orchestra from Geneva, which last visited Washington in 1989, shone immediately in Debussy’s “Ibéria”... [Continue reading]
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
With Charles Dutoit (conductor) and Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Washington Performing Arts
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

PREVIOUSLY
Charles Dutoit: NSO 2009

With Philadelphia Orchestra: 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009

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