Canada doesn’t see much of Zubin Mehta these days but he still has a soft spot for Montreal and tries to return as often as he can to the city that helped him so much in his early days as a conductor. He was back again to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Orchestre symphonique [...]

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“The General“: for orchestra with soprano, choir and narrator. Music by Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor Op.67; “Egmont” Op.84; Incidental Music (exerpts);
“Opferlied” Op.121b
Text by Paul Griffiths. (English version)
Maximilian Schell, narrator/Adrianne Pieczonka, soprano/Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal/OSM Chorus/Kent Nagano, conductor; Analekta: AN 2 9942-3 (2 cds)
For his first recording with the OSM, Kent Nagano has come [...]

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