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Cypress Quartet Unveils Album of Beethoven's Early String Quartets
San Francisco’s Cypress String Quartet is the latest chamber music ensemble to tackle Beethoven’s revered string quartet arrangements. The group’s newest volume, 'Beethoven: The Early String Quartets,' will be available on May 6 via Avie Records. Director Dmitri Tcherniakov Combines Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' and 'Iolanta' at Paris Opera
Stage director Dmitrii Tchneriakov has a dream. He wants to produce the entire Russian stage repertoire. Since this is Paris and not the New York Met, where every other production has to be one of Wagner's Ring Cycle, he just might be able to get it done. Tchneriakov got off to a good start recently when he combined two of Pyotor Tchaikovsky's pieces, Nutcracker and Iolanta and saw them performed at the Paris Opéra at the Palais Garnier March 14th.
