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Benefit concert for the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Concert to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
In a joint benefit concert in April 2011, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Staatskapelle Berlin commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl reactor disaster. This day of remembrance was all the more relevant given the nuclear disaster in Fukushima just a few weeks previously. The concert, with works by Dmitri Shostakovitch, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Tōru Takemitsu, was conducted by Andrey Boreyko.
Staatskapelle Berlin, Strings of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Andrey Boreyko
© 2011 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
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