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Rafael Payare

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[Enjoy Leningrad by Payare and the San Diego Symphony in a superb recording]Rafael Payare, a graduate of El Sistema, honed his craft as an assistant to Abbado, Dudamel, and Barenboim. His performance of Shostakovich with the San Diego Symphony, where he has served as music director since 2019, received high praise for Symphony No. 11, 1905, released exclusively in digital format in 2022. Furthermore, in early 2020just before concerts were universally canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemiche made his first visit to Japan to appear at a NHK Symphony Orchestra subscription concert, where he also presented an all-Shostakovich program. Now, having formed a new partnership with the Delos label, the first release in this collaborationSymphony No. 7, Leningradis a monumental work of historical significance, composed by Shostakovich in 1941 during World War II, in the midst of the brutal Siege of Lening