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Joshua Bell lights up the stage with this dazzling performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, the centerpiece of the Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm in honor of the 2010 Nobel Laureates. The tribute opens with music by Beethoven that urgently evokes the spirit of freedom from tyranny. Closing the evening is a glowing account by Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic of Sibelius's monument to orchestral majesty, the titanic Fifth Symphony....
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Dramatizes how Parsifal defends the Holy Grail and Spear against the dark magician Klingsor.
No burkas and no bikinis - long before Bayreuth's latest Parsifal had opened in Uwe Eric Laufenberg's new reading, these two phrases had done the rounds, their emotive content ensuring that the production was hotly debated. Laufenberg shows us everything: the Grail chalice, the dead swan, the wound, the lance. Such realism in the staging, which above all...