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The Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider has a taste for challenges. Two years ago, in his San Francisco Performances debut recital, he gave a stunning performance of Arnold Schoenberg's late Phantasy. The Schoenberg Concerto, a monumentally tough nut, is in his repertoire; so is Carl Nielsen's notoriously difficult one.
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Berkeley Symphony on KALW 91.7FM: Stucky & Stravinsky
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Weekly program hosted by Richard Friedman featuring new and unusual music by innovative composers and performers around the world.
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Dvořák's beery and boisterous Carnival Overture launches the Los Angeles Philharmonic into this concert, and his sublime final symphony wraps it with a bow. In between, lying like a diamond in a long-closed box, is a jewel of a piece that's almost never taken out: Szymanowski's First Concerto.
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Jeffrey Thomas: The Sacred Concert on KDFC 102.1FM
Join Jeffrey Thomas every Sunday morning at 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern for two hours of commericial-free choral and vocal music on Classical 102.1 KDFC.
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