Glass half full or half empty? The orchestra of about sixty members is strung in gut, which reduces the power of the strings and modifies colors and balances. The first two movements, a sound feast, positively renew our perspective. In the finale too, the orchestra takes its rightful place opposite the singer. But François-Xavier Roth wants to intellectualize, to emphasize his difference or to demonstrate, at all costs, that he is right. So he’s going to do it in the big slow movement (” Ruhevoll », peacefully) a sort of dogmatic demonstration of the interest of bowing (as opposed to the vibrato it shuns) inherited from Baroque times. Result: tense sounds, where the sentences should flourish and sing, and even (a little after two minutes!) downright ugly passages. Question asked: is an interpretation an experimental laboratory? The sub-question is obvious to everyone: what will be your degree of tolerance to 3e movement to enjoy the wonders you will discover in the other three?
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