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Kurt Masur
A maestro of the classic form, Kurt Masur conducted major orchestras around the
world although he spent most of his career in East Germany as music director of
Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. He became renowned in the West in the 1970s and
achieved added fame due to his bravery in the political turmoil that led to the
fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
He was noted for his classical approach to the central romantic repertoire of
Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Mahler. Born in a town
that was at the time within Germany's Weimar Republic (now Poland), Masu...
Jesu, Joy of Man's DesiringJosh Groban, Lili Haydn, Raymond Leppard, Kurt Masur and I Solisti Italiani
Boléro (Bolero)Ricky Kej, Los Zafiros, James Levine, Georg Solti, 岡本知高, Kurt Masur, Hugh Wolff and Libor Pešek (Tomotaka Okamoto)
Vier letzte Lieder, TrV 296: 4. Im AbendrotRichard Strauss, Jessye Norman, Gewandhausorchester and Kurt Masur
Jesu, Joy of Man's DesiringJosh Groban, Lili Haydn, Raymond Leppard, Kurt Masur and I Solisti Italiani
December
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Boléro (Bolero)Ricky Kej, Los Zafiros, James Levine, Georg Solti, 岡本知高, Kurt Masur, Hugh Wolff and Libor Pešek (Tomotaka Okamoto)
Lyric & Coloratura Arias
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Vier letzte Lieder, TrV 296: 4. Im AbendrotRichard Strauss, Jessye Norman, Gewandhausorchester and Kurt Masur
Strauss: Four Last Songs
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