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while famed vocal quartet The Manhattan Transfer add their magic to the choruses of 'The Jazz Life

who died in January 2021 at the age of 92

this concert provides a new opportunity to take the full measure of the poetry deployed by Nelson Goerner

Behind his Obsidian gates

and the Piano Concerto in D major op

Mobley/ Trotignon - Because Release:Because Alpha while famed vocal quartet TheDuring the long era when Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were creating the musical canon of Western Europe, the songs of African slaves resounded in the colonies on the other side of the Atlantic, expressing pain and longing, but also joy and the desire for freedom. The American countertenor Reginald Mobley a rising figure in baroque music, notably under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner with whom he sings very regularly and the French pianist Baptiste