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Mikhail Pletnev
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Maria Callas
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Claudio Abbado
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Riccardo Muti
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Herbert von Karajan
154,962 listeners
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Teodor Currentzis
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Otto Klemperer
13,957 listeners
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Jonas Kaufmann
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Philippe Jaroussky
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