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A concert given yesterday at the Barbican Hall, London, to celebrate the 50th birthday of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, which gave its first concert on 21 April 1948. John Eliot Gardiner conducts the orchestra for the first time in a programme of two
20th-century classics, starting a European tour which ends in Mahler's adopted city of Vienna. Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo),
Keith Lewis (tenor), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Janacek Sinfonietta
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde

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Unknown:
John Eliot Gardiner
Tenor:
Keith Lewis
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor:
Janacek Sinfonietta
Source: Radio Times

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