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Andris Nelsons

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Nelsons, the Talk of the Town at the New Years ConcertLive footage from Leipzig, just ahead of his May 2019 Japan tour, has been released!Conductor Andris Nelsons, who appeared at this years Vienna Philharmonic New Years Concert, is on a roll. Since taking office as the 21st Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in February 2018, his reputation has continued to soar.This video features a concert held in Leipzig in May 2019. The orchestra and Nelsons, along with guest violinist Baiba Skride, performed the same program on a tour of Japan in late May 2019, making this footage from the concert just before their arrival in Japan.Both Skride and Nelsons are from Latvia. They are longtime friends who studied at the same music school and have frequently performed Shostakovichs Violin Concerto No. 1 together. Shostakovichs two violin concertos were written for the virtuoso Oistrakh and pre