Word: pfitzner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which he leads with crisp economic gestures. A propulsive but disciplined reading of Schumann's underrated Symphony No. 2 was one of the highlights of the orchestra's tour...