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We're at the BBC Proms for a mixture of light and dark: sunny selections by Mozart and Brahms bookend a stormy new composition Erkki-Sven Tuur.


From the BBC Proms

From their first season together, Paavo Jarvi leads Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra as their new Chief Conductor.


NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo

The first notes of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 are so familiar to so many people that they've almost become a parody to themselves. You can almost imagine people thinking: Is it fate knocking on the door or should I go to the disco? As part of his final year as their Music Director, Paavo Jarvi gives a dynamite performance of it with the CSO.


Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

There is something so pure, so elemental in the violin concertos of Mozart, and in the playing of the inimitable Hilary Hahn. Put them together, and -- magic!


Paavo Jarvi

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