Short facts:
Raphaël Merlin
France
Cello
1982
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Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular compositions
- Bach: Magnificat D major BWV 243
- Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 E major op. 109
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
- Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 D minor, Op. 108
- Britten: Billy Budd
- Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 D minor WAB 109
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn
- Mozart: Requiem Mass D minor KV 626
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Offenbach: Overture from "La vie parisienne"
- Puccini
- Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (7) B minor D.759, "Unfinished"
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Tschaikowsky: Swan Lake
Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker