Best Dego Podcasts (2024)

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Jess Gillam with... Francesca Dego 27:53

16d ago27:53

27:53

Jess Gillam is joined by Italian-American violinist Francesca Dego to swap some of their favourite music. Francesca has played everywhere from Wigmore Hall to Lincoln Centre New York, and her latest recording of Brahms and Busoni violin concertos with BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska is out now via Chandos.Today Francesca has br…

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Jess Gillam with... Alessandro Fisher 24:13

26d ago24:13

24:13

Jess Gillam and tenor Alessandro Fisher share the music they love. Alessandro Fisher is a former member of the BBC New Generation Artist scheme, and a Kathleen Ferrier award winner: a versatile performer equally at home in baroque and romantic opera, or song. His choices today include barbershop quartet, brass band music, and the voice of Fritz Wun…

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Jess Gillam with... James Baillieu 27:04

1M ago27:04

27:04

Jess Gillam swaps music with pianist James Baillieu, including works by Mozart, Bach, and Ella Fitzgerald. Pianist James Baillieu has worked with musicians including Lise Davidsen, Timothy Ridout and Pretty Yende, and has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Vienna Musikverein. He is also Senior Professor of Ensemble Piano and a Fellow at the…

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Jess Gillam with...Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha 27:49

2M ago27:49

27:49

Jess Gillam and soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha share their favourite tracks. South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha was the winner of the Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2021 and is a current BBC New Generation Artist. She’s brought a track from iconic South African artist Miriam Makeba and Maria C…

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Jess Gillam with... Keelan Carew 27:05

2M ago27:05

27:05

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with pianist Keelan Carew, and between them they put together a boundary-pushing playlist with songs by Kurt Weill and Nat King Cole - pianistic fireworks by Busoni and Chopin, orchestral fireworks by Shostakovich and some classic Japanese jazz fusion by Casiopea. Playlist:KURT WEILL: Der Abschiedsbrief [Teresa Str…

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Doubling Brahms - Busoni and his violin concerto with Francesca Dego 37:09

2M ago37:09

37:09

Violinist Francesca Dego kicks off the Busoni centenary celebrations with her new album, pairing his concerto with that of Brahms - a juxtaposition that might seem strange, until you realise (as Francesca describes) the deep connections between the two works, so much so that Busoni's concerto could even be seen as a direct homage to Brahms's. As we…

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Jess Gillam with... Jordan Bak 28:32

2M ago28:32

28:32

Jess Gillam meets violist Jordan Bak to share some of their favourite music. Jamaican-American violist Jordan Bak is a proud new music advocate – he’s performed world premieres of works by composers including Kaija Saariaho and Augusta Read Thomas. His debut album IMPULSE was released in 2022 and he’s performed with orchestras including London Moza…

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Jess Gillam with... Kate Whitley 27:25

3M ago27:25

27:25

Jess's guest this week is the composer Kate Whitley. Kate is an award-winning composer and pianist, who also runs the Multi-Story Orchestra. The orchestra was born in a multi-story car park in Peckham, and perform in car parks around the country, as they wanted to take classical music out of formal concert halls. They also create hugely powerful mu…

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Jess Gillam with... Johan Dalene 28:47

3M ago28:47

28:47

Jess Gillam meets Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene to swap some of their favourite music. At 23 years old, Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene is already the winner of several awards, including the prestigious Carl Nielsen Competition in 2019, the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award in 2022, and a Swedish Grammy in 2023. His musi…

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An Invitation to the Dance - Storming the ‘barricades mystérieuses’ with Martin James Bartlett 28:55

3M ago28:55

28:55

Pianist Martin James Bartlett first came to many people’s attention in 2014, when he won the BBC Young Musician Award. A Proms debut followed the next year, and a recording contract with Warner Classics not long after. To date, both of Martin’s albums on Warner have been centred around a unifying core concept - recital-recordings with a clear and t…

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Jess Gillam with... Robert Ames 28:43

3M ago28:43

28:43

Jess Gillam and conductor Robert Ames share some of the tunes they love, with music by Philip Glass, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Makaya McCraven, Pauline Oliveros and J.S. Bach. Playlist:Philip Glass – Aguas da Amazonia - Madeira River [Uakti]Abel Selaocoe – Voices of BantuHildur Guðnadóttir - For Petra [London Contemporary Orchestra, Robert Ames]Tchaikovs…

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Jess Gillam with... Fleur Barron 29:05

4M ago29:05

29:05

Jess Gillam meets mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron to swap some of their favourite music. Singaporean-British mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron sings everything from opera to chamber music, from the baroque to the contemporary. She is mentored by Barbara Hannigan and has performed with LSO, Czech Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony. She joins Jess ahead of…

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Jess Gillam with... Laura Cannell 27:03

4M ago27:03

27:03

Jess Gillam shares music with composer Laura Cannell, including a sublime Biber Requiem, new music by Kenya Grace, traditional Norwegian fiddle music and a Memphis Soul Stew! Playlist:Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1; first movement [Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel]Kenya Grace - StrangersJohn Mackey – Concerto for Sopr…

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La Divina - Rob Cowan and Alain Lanceron on the centenary of Maria Callas's birth 56:18

4M ago56:18

56:18

As every opera-fan must surely be aware by now, December saw the centenary of Maria Callas’s birth, and Warner Classics marked the occasion by issuing the most comprehensive collection of her recordings ever released – clocking in at a whopping 131 CDs, La Divina offers the chance to experience Callas’s unique qualities in all 74 roles for which au…

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Jess Gillam with... Lise Davidsen (This Classical Christmas) 28:20

4M ago28:20

28:20

Jess Gillam is joined by Norwegian soprano and Last Night of the Proms star Lise Davidsen for a very Christmassy edition of This Classical Life. They share their favourite Christmas music and chat about what gives them that festive feeling! Lise Davidsen has been described as “the greatest soprano in the world right now”, with a “one-in-a-million v…

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Jess Gillam with... Guylaine Eckersley 27:28

4M ago27:28

27:28

Jess Gillam and bassoonist Guylaine Eckersley share their favourite tracks, with music by Abel Selaocoe, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Laura Misch and a guilty pleasure from Frozen 2. Playlist:Abel Selaocoe - Ka Bohaleng / On the Sharp SidePergolesi - Stabat Mater [Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor), Julia Lezhneva (soprano), I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis]Kri…

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Jess Gillam with... Daniel Shao 24:36

5M ago24:36

24:36

Jess Gillam and flautist Daniel Shao play each other their current favourite music. Daniel is a versatile musician, at home in the classical repertory with a number of leading orchestras, or performing contemporary music and exploring his Chinese heritage with the group Tangram. Daniel's choices include Britten, Whitney Houston, and music for the f…

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Tudor Wild Child - Thomas Weelkes with Dr Katie Bank 27:29

5M ago27:29

27:29

Although plenty of attention has been lavished on the four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Byrd, his contemporary Thomas Weelkes also died in 1623 - on the 30th of November - and has seen rather less in the way of commemoration. In addition to Weelkes being a composer of great gifts, his reputation also rests in part on his track reco…

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Jess Gillam with... Cécile McLorin Salvant 27:46

5M ago27:46

27:46

Jess Gillam meets jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant to swap some of their favourite music.Cécile is a 3 time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer and her music shows off her passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, jazz, baroque and folkloric music. She spoke to Jess ahead of her show at London Jazz Festival 2023…

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Take me to your Lieder - Schubert in English with Roderick Williams, Rowan Pierce and Christopher Glynn 45:00

5M ago45:00

45:00

The 'Schubert in English' series on Signum Classics sees its fourth instalment this year - following up Winter Journey, Swansong and The Fair Maid of the Mill with a wider-ranging collection of songs, sung by Roderick Williams and Rowan Pierce with Christopher Glynn at the piano. Front and centre, too, are the translations of Jeremy Sams, which at …

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Jess Gillam with... Matthew Barley 28:24

6M ago28:24

28:24

Jess Gillam and cellist Matthew Barley sit down to listen together to the music they love. Matthew's career as a cellist has seen him straddle any number of different genres and continents. He's just as at home in front of an orchestra as he is improvising in a nightclub, playing chamber music with his wife – the violinist Viktoria Mullova - or goi…

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Jess Gillam with... Ema Nikolovska 26:29

6M ago26:29

26:29

Jess Gillam and mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska share the music they love, including a traditional Macedonian folk song, Janelle Monáe’s sci-fi concept album The Arch Android, a sublime Bach partita in the hands of guitarist Sean Shibe and the beautiful voices of Mara Carlyle and Odetta. Playlist:Janacek - Prelude to The Cunning Little Vixen [Vienna P…

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Sound the Trombone! Onyx Brass at 30 with Amos Miller 25:16

6M ago25:16

25:16

As "the classiest brass ensemble in Britain" turns 30, Onyx Brass's trombonist Amos Miller looks back over three decades of brass quintet music-making, with an eye on exploring contemporary repertoire. We discuss the group's latest album, 'The sun is free to flow with the sea', and some of the works featured on it, as well as touching on questions …

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Jess Gillam with... Nicholas Collon 27:11

6M ago27:11

27:11

Jess Gillam meets with the conductor Nicholas Collon to share some of the music they love. Today their musical journey takes in the harmonic genius of Jacob Collier, glorious choral music by Poulenc, a youthful Octet by Mendelssohn, a dreamy song from Sibelius, Britten’s iconic Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, some grooves from Pino Palladino…

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Jess Gillam with... Sumina Studer 27:59

7M ago27:59

27:59

Jess Gillam and violinist Sumina Studer swap some of their favourite music. As well as picking up prizes for her playing in the Berliner International Music Competition and the Verbier Festival amongst others, and performing with various orchestras across the world, Sumina still finds the time to make hugely popular videos for social media where sh…

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A Great Musical Dett - Choral Music by Black Composers with Dr Marques Garrett 34:56

7M ago34:56

34:56

A discussion of the OUP's recently-published collection of sacred and secular choral works by Black composers, with its editor Dr Marques Garrett - taking in Vicente Lusitano, Undine Smith Moore, R Nathaniel Dett (Dr Garrett's own particular labour of love) and more. Presto Music All things musical... on your doorstep! Visit our website: www.presto…

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Jess Gillam with... Lucy Humphris 28:08

7M ago28:08

28:08

Jess Gillam and trumpeter Lucy Humphris share their favourite music. Their musical adventure today includes scary Prokofiev, dreamy Debussy, wide open space from Edmund Finnis and Schoenberg, birdsong with Lady Maisery and some 8-bit chiptune from the computer game FEZ by Disasterpeace. Playlist: Cinderella-Suite Nr. 1, Op. 107, VIII. MidnightUkrai…

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Jess Gillam with... Karim Kamar 28:13

7M ago28:13

28:13

Jess Gillam and pianist Karim Kamar share some of their favourite music. Karim has an amazing musical story - after loving playing as a kid but never studying properly, at 25 he decided to quit his job and learn the piano seriously to become a professional musician. He spent years painstakingly learning how to play - and has since released 6 albums…

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Jess Gillam with... Delia Stevens 23:21

8M ago23:21

23:21

Jess Gillam is joined by percussionist Delia Stevens to share the music they love and make some new discoveries, including tracks by Tessa Lark, Avner Dorman, Fabiano do Nascimento and Jack Hylton and His Orchestra. Playlist:Debussy: Danse profane for harp & orchestraTessa Lark: Jig and PopCyrille Aimée: It’s a Good DayVega Trails: Love Your GraceA…

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Jess Gillam with... Braimah Kanneh-Mason 27:44

8M ago27:44

27:44

Jess Gillam and violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason swap some of their favourite tracks and chat about their lives in music. Braimah comes armed with a classic Beethoven recording by violinist Itzhak Perlman, a feel-good tune by The Melodians and a Haydn quartet. Meanwhile, Jess spins Rachmaninov at his most romantic, Monteverdi by the ensemble L'Arpegg…

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Standing out from the Crowd - Arthur Bliss with Paul Spicer 50:54

8M ago50:54

50:54

Arthur Bliss was one of the most important British musicians of his age. Having served with distinction in the Great War, in which he was both injured and gassed, he subsequently became the most performed British composer abroad. He served as Director of Music at the BBC from 1942-44, and was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 1953. Bliss was…

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A Russian Soul in Exile - Rachmaninoff with Fiona Maddocks 51:26

9M ago51:26

51:26

The great Russian Romantic composer Sergei Rachmaninoff declared that his music was "the product of his temperament, therefore Russian", but he spent the final 26 years of life in exile after fleeing Russia in 1917. While in exile he composed his late masterpieces including the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Symphonic Dances, while also pr…

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Jess Gillam with... James Newby 27:44

9M ago27:44

27:44

Jess Gillam and baritone James Newby swap some of their favourite tracks and chat about their lives in music. James - who was one of Radio 3's New Generation Artists - is one of the country's most exciting young baritones and performs all around Europe in everything from contemporary opera to intimate song recitals. His music picks include a choral…

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Jess Gillam with... Anne Sofie von Otter 27:31

9M ago27:31

27:31

Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with the mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter Anne Sofie is one of classical music's most celebrated singers with a huge back catalogue of recordings, and she's also known for her huge versatility and musical curiosity working with artists from conductors Claudio Abbado and Giuseppe Sinopoli to Elvis Costello, Brad M…

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Jess Gillam with... Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux 28:28

9M ago28:28

28:28

Jess Gillam and violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux share their favourite music with each other, including the sublime voices of Dhafer Youssef and the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir, an intimate transcription of Gluck, joy and happiness from Boccherini and the Maccabees plus the unmistakable vibrato of Sidney Bechet.…

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A Mercury Legend - Antal Doráti with Rob Cowan and Thomas Fine 1:11:35

9M ago1:11:35

1:11:35

Earlier this year we saw the release of not one, but two box sets dedicated to recordings by the Minnesota Orchestra under their Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti, recordings made by the Mercury Record Company in the 1950's. To discuss the artistic and sonic legacy of these Mono and Stereo box sets I was privileged to be joined not only by record cr…

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Jess Gillam with... Pekka Kuusisto 29:14

9M ago29:14

29:14

Jess Gillam is joined by the Finnish violinist, conductor, and composer Pekka Kuusisto. They share thoughts on some favourite music, from a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal to piano music by Ligeti, and from Bernstein's Wonderful Town to the Swedish singer Katarina Barruk.By BBC Radio 3

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Belle de nuit – Chatting to Emmanuel Despax about 'Après un rêve' 18:29

10M ago18:29

18:29

Some "concept" albums can seem a little contrived – with themes not so much neatly interwoven as crudely welded onto one another. Not so Emmanuel Despax's new album Après un rêve, which draws together its three main ideas so naturally that it seems as if the album must have sprung from Despax's mind fully formed. A poetic legacy from his music-lovi…

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Jess Gillam with... Sehyogue Aulakh 28:23

10M ago28:23

28:23

Jess Gillam and percussionist Sehyogue Aulakh share some of the music that they love, from Aretha Franklin to Dmitri Shostakovich, JS Bach and Seckou Keita. Sehyogue's Playlist: SHOSTAKOVICH – Symphony No. 5 in D Minor Op. 47: I. Moderato (Royal Concertegabouw Orchestra, Bernard Haiktink)MOBY – Porcelain COUPERIN arr. Ades – Les Baricades misterieu…

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Brahms In The Time Machine – Ein Deutsches Barockrequiem with Lionel Meunier 34:40

10M ago34:40

34:40

Over the nearly twenty years since its formation, Vox Luminis has appeared in our metaphorical pages plenty of times – the Belgian early music ensemble consistently combines original and exploratory programming with impeccable musicianship. Every album Lionel Meunier and his musicians release can be relied on to be not just a feast for the ears but…

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Jess Gillam with... Tessa Lark 28:03

10M ago28:03

28:03

Jess Gillam meets violinist Tessa Lark to swap some of their favourite music. Tessa is an in-demand classical concert violinist but growing up in Kentucky, she’s equally inspired by bluegrass music and American folk styles and so blends the two influences in a lot of her work. Traditional music features prominently in her music choices as the Marti…

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Jess Gillam with... Zubin Kanga 29:31

11M ago29:31

29:31

Jess Gillam is joined by composer, pianist and technologist Zubin Kanga, with music from Gesualdo to Ravel via Laurie Spiegel and Jaco Pastorius.By BBC Radio 3

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Jess Gillam with... Jasdeep Singh Degun 23:38

11M ago23:38

23:38

Jess Gillam is joined by sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun to share and talk about the music that they both love, with tracks from Philip Glass, Monteverdi, Nishat Khan and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. Along the way they discover some of the links between western and Indian classical music, and find out more about Jasdeep's childhood in Le…

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Jess Gillam with... Missy Mazzoli 28:00

11M ago28:00

28:00

Jess Gillam's guest is pianist and composer Missy Mazzoli. They share some of the music that they love, including Ellen Reid, JS Bach, Julian Lage and Sudanese singer Aamina Camaari.By BBC Radio 3

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Jess Gillam with... Hazel Askew 27:41

11M ago27:41

27:41

Jess's meets folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Hazel Askew to swap some of their favourite music. Hazel is a fixture in the UK folk music scene known for her bands Lady Maisery and the Askew Sisters, as well as numerous collaborative projects across different musical genres. Today they sit down to listen to a full-blooded folk waltz by Warsaw V…

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Jess Gillam with... Gabriella Teychenné 27:25

12M ago27:25

27:25

Jess Gillam's guest this week is conductor Gabriella Teychenné. Her musical life bounces between conducting brand new music, collaborating with symphony orchestras and she's the founder of Sinfonia Humanitas, a new ensemble whose concert programmes fuse early and contemporary music. Gabriella and Jess settle in for a listening party of the music th…

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Jess Gillam with... Soweto Kinch 28:48

1y ago28:48

28:48

Jess Gillam is joined by a fellow saxophonist the Award-winning composer, poet, MC and producer Soweto Kinch to chat and share the music they love. Playlist:Debussy - Dances for Harp and Orchestra, L.103:2. Danse profane [Lavinia Meijer, Amsterdam Sinfonietta] Ben Webster - When I Fall in Love Steve Reich - Different Trains: America Before the War …

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I've Started, So I'll Finish – A Return to Mozart with Robert Levin 26:50

1y ago26:50

26:50

Robert Levin set out to record a complete set of Mozart's works for keyboard and orchestra. After several highly successful and critically-acclaimed volumes over the following decade, fate eventually intervened to force the project into the deep freeze, and on that unsatisfying note the story might have ended. Happily, though, circumstances have no…

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Introduction to my new podcast. 6:06

1y ago6:06

6:06

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Jess Gillam with... Tine Thing Helseth 27:10

1y ago27:10

27:10

Jess Gillam is joined by acclaimed Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth to chat and share the music they love. Playlist:Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - XIV Pt2 le sacrifice: danse sacrale l’Elue [Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti] Mozart – Die Zauberflote, K.620; Act 2, no.17; Ach, ich fuhl's, es ist verschwunden [Mari Eriksmoen, Stavanger Symp…

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