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Ensemble Matheus At Carnegie Hall

Hear a top French chamber orchestra bring passionate life to operatic works by Vivaldi, Handel and the little-heard Nicola Antonio Porpora — a composer who was once Handel's rival.

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Carnegie Hall Live: Golijov's 'St. Mark Passion'

Hear one of the most exciting pieces of 21st-century music: a new retelling of Jesus' last days, from Latin American and Jewish perspectives, courtesy of composer Osvaldo Golijov and collaborators.

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Carnegie Hall Live: Jonathan Biss And The Elias String Quartet

Hear one of America's finest young pianists and an emerging English string quartet play music by visionary composer Robert Schumann, as well as music by Mozart and artists Schumann influenced.

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Tokyo String Quartet Bids Boston A Bittersweet Farewell

After 43 seasons, the revered ensemble, born in Japan, calls it quits. Here, the players serenade Boston at WGBH, with a concert of music by Haydn, Bartok and Ravel.

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Carnegie Hall Live: Dresden Staatskapelle Plays Bruckner

When the orchestra brings Bruckner's Eighth Symphony to New York, listeners hear an ensemble comfortable with the composer's quirks and thrills. Hear what one critic calls a "mesmerizing experience."

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Mozart's Violin Comes To Boston, Live In Concert

Hear the full program and see an excerpt of the performances in Boston, thanks to a collaboration between the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Boston Early Music Festival and Classical New England.

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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

Conductor Robert Spano leads the orchestra and chorus in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, music written for the 1962 rededication of the cathedral in Coventry, England, destroyed in a 1940 air raid.

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Seattle Symphony, New Pulitzer Winner At Carnegie Hall

John Luther Adams' prize-winning piece Become Ocean headlines a concert devoted to sea and sand that includes Debussy's La mer and an Edgard Varèse piece inspired by the New Mexico desert.

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Music By Arvo Pärt, From The Met Museum's Temple Of Dendur

Watch the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir perform an extended piece derived from an ancient canon of repentance. Unfolding as a long prayer, the music is rich, multilayered and mesmerizing.

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Carnegie Hall Live: An Opening Night Gala With The Berlin Philharmonic

Stream a performance by the stellar Berlin Philharmonic and conductor Simon Rattle in a program of Rachmaninov, Bruch and Stravinsky with dazzling violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.

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The Academy Of Ancient Music Plays J.S. Bach at Carnegie Hall

Stream a live Carnegie Hall concert of Bach's four orchestral suites, played by the superb Academy of Ancient Music, led by Richard Egarr.

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LA Philharmonic In Concert: Dudamel, Mahler And New Music

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony and a new percussion concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang in this season opener at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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Carnegie Hall Live: The Chicago Symphony Plays A Colorful Concert

Hear the CSO and its charismatic conductor Riccardo Muti in a program showing the muscle and subtlety of the of orchestra in music by Scriabin, Debussy and Mendelssohn.

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András Schiff Plays Mozart, Haydn, Schubert And Beethoven At Carnegie Hall

Hear the eminent pianist in a recital of sublime works spanning Classical-era elegance and introspective Romantic drama.

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Carnegie Hall Live: Jordi Savall And Le Concert Des Nations

Hear a consummate master of early music, conductor and viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, lead his ensemble Le Concert des Nations in an exhilarating array of 17th- and 18th-century French music.

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The New York Philharmonic At Carnegie Hall

A world premiere by Magnus Lindberg and a time-honored concerto played by Evgeny Kissin bring history and celebration to Carnegie's season-opening concert.

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A Tale Of Two Sergeys: Boston Symphony Orchestra At Carnegie Hall

Conductor Andris Nelsons rallies the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Prokofiev's riotous Alexander Nevsky and makes the orchestra shine in Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances.

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Beethoven Symphonies At Carnegie Hall Via Berlin

From an all-Beethoven residency week, hear the storied Berlin Philharmonic play the profound Sixth and witty Eighth with conductor Simon Rattle.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra Brings Vienna To Carnegie Hall

With a Strauss waltz, a cheeky take on Strauss and a Beethoven concerto, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin conjures the sound of old Vienna, once the musical capital of Europe.

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Carnegie Hall Live: Golijov's 'St. Mark Passion'

Hear one of the most exciting pieces of 21st-century music: a new retelling of Jesus' last days, from Latin American and Jewish perspectives, courtesy of composer Osvaldo Golijov and collaborators.

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