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Thomas Dausgaard: Close Encounters with Nielsen, Shostakovich and Grieg, Jan. 29, 2020
Seattle Symphony Spotlight
English - January 30, 2020 03:15 - 24 minutes - 12.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMusic Interviews Music Arts classicalmusic davebeck kingfm seattleclassical seattlesymphony Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Bitten by the Baroque Bug: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Jan. 22, 2020
Each of the pieces on the Seattle Symphony program this week have very personal associations for Music Director Thomas Dausgaard. He led Grieg’s ”Peer Gynt Suite” at his professional conducting debut. He was a young cellist in a Copenhagen youth symphony when he first played the Carl Nielsen First Symphony. And as he told Classical KING FM’s Dave Beck this week, his experience in the Russian dacha where Shostakovich once composed string quartets left a deep impression on the young conductor Thomas Dausgaard.