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Finnish Conductor @OrchestreParis @Filharmonien @ConcertgbOrkest @deccaclassics

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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Love this photo 📸 Fabian Schellhorn / Berliner Festpiele
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Honoured to start a long-term collaboration with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra! @ConcertgbOrkest Photo credit: Marco Borggreve
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Beethoven 9 in Vienna this week!
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Mahler in Tokyo
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2 years
Tokyo. First concert tomorrow!
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Klaus Mäkelä
8 months
My grandfather browsing a score of Symphonie fantastique in Helsinki, September 2023
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
A free day in Tokyo before continuing to Nagoya, Okayama and Osaka. Orchestre de Paris played superbly in Suntory Hall last night
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Oslo Philharmonic is on tour in Japan and we are all so happy to play with the exceptional pianist Nobu Tsuji. The orchestra played two wonderful nights in Suntory Hall and next we’re continuing to Kumamoto before flying to Korea and Taiwan! Photo by John-Halvdan Halvorsen
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Honoured to receive the Sibelius Prize awarded by the Sibelius Society of Norway!
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2 years
🎉Gratulerer @klausmakela ! Sibelius-selskapet i Norge har tildelt Sibeliusprisen 2022 den finske dirigenten Klaus Mäkelä. Mäkelä mottar prisen ved Oslo @Filharmonien konsert i Oslo Konserthus 4. november. #sibelius #sibeliusprisen
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Klaus Mäkelä
3 months
This week in Paris with the incredible Yunchan Lim, one of the most impressive artists I have ever met Rachmaninoff 2 Shostakovich 11 📸 Denis Allard / Orchestre de Paris @OrchestreParis @philharmonie
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Happy New Year from Vienna!
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
On the way to Nagoya
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Out in March! Super excited. To record these works with the Orchestre de Paris was a dream! First track is out now and you can stream from it the link below —
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
On my way to Japan with @OrchestreParis !
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
In beautiful Okayama. Concert tonight!
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Thank you for the heartwarming messages and wishes! Thrilled to announce my appointment as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris!
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Klaus Mäkelä
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An evening I’ll remember forever… The start of our journey with the Concertgebouworkest 📷 Marco Borggreve
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Mahler 6 & Saariaho Orion with the Concertgebouworkest tonight. Looking immensely forward…
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Tonight at the Proms with dearest Oslo Philharmonic Sibelius: Tapiola Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 with Yuja Wang Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Osaka! Last concert of the tour tomorrow. It’s been amazing traveling across Japan with dear @OrchestreParis & @AliceSaraOtt — and of course with masterpieces by Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Mahler 5 in Chicago with @EstebanBatallan & @DavidCooperhorn and in Cleveland with Michael Sachs and Nathaniel Silberschlag! Amazing to get to play together with these wonderful musicians!
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Thrilled to share the first look and listen of my debut album 'Sibelius' to be released on @deccaclassics on 25 March 2022! It’s a complete cycle of Jean Sibelius’ symphonies, plus tone poem Tapiola and 3 Late Fragments, all recorded with @Filharmonien
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Klaus Mäkelä
9 months
Season opening in Paris tonight! Stravinsky: Pétrouchka Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bertrand Chamayou) Rachmaninoff: The Bells Orchestre de Paris Le Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris 📸 Denis Allard
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Mahler 2 at the Musikverein tonight! #orchestredeparisontour
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Mahler 2 in Paris tonight and tomorrow night!
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 month
Thinking back to the most wonderful time in Chicago the past week. An extraordinary orchestra in a great city, I am so much looking forward to the future together… Thank you for the kind messages and congratulations dear friends! 📸 Todd Rosenberg
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Klaus Mäkelä
4 months
A joy to work with Daniil Trifonov in Paris this week! 📸 Denis Allard
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Klaus Mäkelä
4 months
Orchestre de Paris playing Stravinsky and Debussy will be out in early March! Jeux is perhaps the greatest masterpiece of the French repertoire. And Bertrand Chamayou plays the piano in Pétrouchka!
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Back at @SuntoryHallE , one of my favorite places in the world Zinovjev: Batteria Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 ”Leningrad” It feels special to present this programme in these times — both pieces as a reflection of recent events in Oslo and Ukraine @TMSOnews @SauliZinovjev
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
In Oslo for a week of Beethoven, Lully, Farrenc and Mozart! And Isabelle Faust is back with us!
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Great to back in Amsterdam for one of my favourite works — the Alpine Symphony! Also Bloch’s Schelomo with Sol and Jimmy López Bellido’s Aino
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Tonight at the Philharmonie — Opening concert of Musikfest Berlin Saariaho: Orion Mahler: Symphony No. 6 Concertgebouworkest
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Some of the most outstanding orchestral playing I’ve ever heard. Orchestre de Paris performing Sacre last night was unforgettable! (Renoir 1866)
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Klaus Mäkelä
10 months
Tonight at the BBC Proms! López: Perú negro (UK premiere) Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody (Yuja Wang) Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Thomas Hampson
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Tonight a very special concert at the Philharmonie de Paris with Francis Kurkdjian — I’ve been looking forward to this so much… I’ll play the Bach D minor Suite and he’s created 6 different scents to accompany each movement. Photo credit: Maison Francis Kurkdjian
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Klaus Mäkelä
3 years
One of the finest musicians of our time has passed away. Bernard Haitink 1929-2021
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Good vibes from Igor (left) and Stéphane (right) for the last Sacre of this tour at Osaka Festival Hall!
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Back in Paris!! European premiere of Lindberg Piano Concerto + Tchaikovsky Pathétique this week. Photo from yesterday playing Rachmaninoff trio with Yuja and Renaud. 📸 Denis Allard
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Klaus Mäkelä
8 months
Thank you Amsterdam for another lovely week, this time with Yuja and a French programme including Ravel and Debussy! Next we take this programme + Mahler 3 on tour to Enescu Festival in Bucharest and to Dortmund
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Concertmaster @EiichiChijiiwa & chef d’attaque Nikola Nikolov at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
From darkness to eternal light: Sibelius 4 & Mozart Requiem tonight at the Concertgebouw
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Wonderful to be back in Chicago with the great Chicago Symphony! Mahler 5 — López — Sibelius this week
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Tonight in Vienna! Orchestre de Paris playing Ravel and Stravinsky. And the superb Alexandre Kantorow plays Saint-Saëns!
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Mahler, Berg and Bach (arr. Berio) for our season opening in Oslo tonight! Fantastic Isabelle Faust as the soloist.
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Some backstage photos of friends and colleagues from the orchestra. Flautist Bastien Pelat and hornists Benoît de Barsony and Philippe Dalmasso before the Rite of Spring in Tokyo.
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Klaus Mäkelä
11 months
Back in Paris!
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Klaus Mäkelä
10 months
Zubin Mehta in Verbier
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Mahler and Chin in Cleveland tonight. This orchestra is a miracle!
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Vienna!
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Yuja preparing both Ravel concertos for concerts in Edinburgh and Lucerne #oslophilharmonicontour
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Philharmonie. Tonight’s concert also live on Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall!
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Oslo!
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Klaus Mäkelä
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New York, 2024 With dear Orchestre de Paris in Carnegie Hall, playing the complete Firebird and Rite of Spring tonight ❤️
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Back in Amsterdam and the @ConcertgbOrkest after a wonderful and intense tour with @Filharmonien This week the programme is from darkness to light: Sibelius 4 & Mozart Requiem
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Klaus Mäkelä
10 months
Zubin Mehta and Mischa Maisky in Verbier
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Klaus Mäkelä
7 months
Thank you Oslo Phil for 13 wonderful concerts on tour. Wishing everyone safe travels!
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1 year
Last stop of the tour in Hamburg, at the Elbphilharmonie — Mahler 2! #orchestredeparisontour 📸 Daniel Dittus
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Lugano
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Milan, October 2023
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1 year
This weekend at the Musikverein. Very excited!!
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
My favourite programme of the season this week in Paris! @OrchestreParis on fire. Saariaho: Asteroid 4179 — Toutatis Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra López Bellido: Aino (world premiere) - Dusapin: A Linea (world premiere) Scriabin: Poème de l'extase 📸 Lewis Joly
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Last night in Boston #orchestredeparisontour 📸 Mathias Benguigui
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Back in Cleveland with one of my favourite orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra. An immense pleasure. Sibelius and Shostakovich this week!
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Klaus Mäkelä
8 months
In the gardens of Versailles, October 2023
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Tonight in London with the London Philharmonic Orchestra Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Julian Rachlin) Larcher: Symphony No. 2 ”Kenotaph” Mahler: Symphony No. 10 — Adagio Looking very much forward!!
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Oslo Philharmonic leaving for an European tour tomorrow! First stop Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, then Isarphilharmonie in Munich followed by Vienna, Dortmund and Antwerp. Sol Gabetta is our brilliant soloist
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Klaus Mäkelä
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This week in Prague with the very special Czech Philharmonic at the Prague Spring Festival. Schnittke Viola Concerto with Antoine Tamestit and Mahler 1 tomorrow night in the Rudolfinum!
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The @OrchestreParis plays Bruckner with astonishing musicianship and imagination for sound! Lovely to see everyone again. The Ninth Symphony tomorrow at the Louvre — under the Pyramide — to celebrate Fête de la Musique. Free entry!
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Klaus Mäkelä
3 years
Tonight in beautiful Reykjavík! An evening in B minor. Shostakovich 6 — Tchaikovsky 6 @ConcertgbOrkest
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Back in Oslo for Shostakovich 4
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Dijon! First concert of @OrchestreParis European tour tonight.
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Back in Amsterdam for our last programme of this year. Zinovjev — Raskatov (world première) — Stravinsky
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Montmartre
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Back in Oslo for Missa Solemnis! One of the greatest (and wildest) works ever written.
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Klaus Mäkelä
10 months
Tonight @VerbierFestival Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata & Piano Trio No. 1 Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 with Yuja Wang, Daniel Lozakovich & Antoine Tamestit
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Orchestre de Paris x Carnegie Hall! Next season an all-Stravinsky programme including the complete Firebird and Rite of Spring!
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Klaus Mäkelä
7 months
For the last part of the tour we’re joined by the sublime Janine Jansen, playing Sibelius and Mendelssohn. Two more concerts in Taipei left! #oslophilharmonicontour
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Klaus Mäkelä
9 months
First concert at the Edinburgh International Festival tonight! Gupta: Epilogue from Earth’s Song Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Johanna Wallroth Oslo Philharmonic
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Exciting week at the @philharmonie ahead. Saariaho, Ravel & Stravinsky
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1 year
#orchestredeparisontour A memorable concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam
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Klaus Mäkelä
8 months
Tonight in Bucharest!
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3 months
Thomas Larcher in Amsterdam! Superb Concertgebouworkest in symphonies by Larcher and Mahler and our dear Olivier Patey in Mozart Photo taken by Eduardus Lee
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Klaus Mäkelä
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Truls Mørk in Oslo. Unforgettable!
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
Leif Ove after Rachmaninoff 3 in Oslo
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Klaus Mäkelä
3 months
This week in Paris! STRAVINSKY L’Oiseau de feu Pétrouchka Le Sacre du printemps Accompanied by films by Rebecca Zlotowski, Bertrand Mandico & Evangelia Kranioti And finishing the week on Saturday at the Louvre with Enescu’s Octet and Biber’s Battalia
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
Great to be back in Paris. Debussy, Bloch and Stravinsky @OrchestreParis this week.
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2 years
Happy to be back at the @VerbierFestival
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10 months
Daniil Trifonov with Sergei Babayan in Verbier
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Klaus Mäkelä
2 years
This immensely sad news. Rest in peace dear Philippe. We will play for you tonight and for the rest of the tour. ❤️
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Orchestre de Paris
2 years
C’est avec une immense tristesse que nous apprenons le décès de Philippe Aïche, premier violon solo de l’Orchestre de Paris. Au côté des musiciens de l’Orchestre de Paris depuis 1985, il a contribué à construire l’identité de notre ensemble, alliant l’humour à la virtuosité.
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Klaus Mäkelä
1 year
This week in Leipzig with the Gewandhausorchester! Tonight and tomorrow Brahms 4 & Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau, very much looking forward!
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Jørn Halbakken warming up before the first concert of the tour in Tokyo #oslophilharmonicontour
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A very special week in Berlin. Tchaikovsky 6 & Shostakovich 6 this weekend!
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Vienna, May 2024
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1 year
Amsterdam. But this time with Paris! #orchestredeparisontour
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Klaus Mäkelä
5 months
Bach, Brahms, Chin and Ligeti tonight at the Philharmonie with the superb Alex Gattet, Peter Mattei and Orchestre de Paris!
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Orchestre de Paris
5 months
« Ô monde, je suis comblé » Notre hautboïste Alexandre Gattet dans la Cantate BWV 82 de Bach dirigée par @klausmakela , ce soir à la @philharmonie . 👉 Dernières places :
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