Etiket: Bach
The Passion According to Saint John: A Grand Kickoff for the Montreal Bach Festival
The opening concert of the most important festival dedicated to Bach in North America will be presented at the Maison symphonique by the prestigious Gaechinger Cantorey of the Internationale Bachakademie…
a day with Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants, from Schütz madrigals to Bach cantatas
It is undoubtedly one of the ensembles that have had the greatest impact on the history of the Festival of Early and Baroque Music in Ambronay: Les Arts Florissants. He…
Festival Quartiers danses: Bach makes Bourgie Hall dance
For the third time, the Brazilian choreographer Alex Neoral comes to the Festival Quartiers danses (FQD) with his company Focus Cia de Dança to present his triptych on the music…
[Rentrée culturelle] Johann Sebastian Bach spoiled like never before
Raphael Payare will open the season of the Orchester symphonique de Montréal (OSM) on September 15 with the 2e Mahler’s Symphony, after recording the Fifth by the same composer. The…
La Roque-d’Anthéron: A Day With Lucas Debargue, Pianist Of Culture, Curiosity And Reflection
We accompanied him to his concert, we discussed with him, we exchanged thoughts of all kinds, and not only on music, a field in which he is inexhaustible. Literature, philosophy,…
La Roque-d’Anthéron: Mao Fujita, Momo Kodama, The Japanese Connection And The Harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, Royal Dans Bach.
Mao Fujita, Momo Kodama: two Japanese who escape what I could reproach Asians for the other day: uniformity. Magnificent performances. And Pierre Hantaï, the magician of the harpsichord, so in…
[Critique] “Johann Sebastian Bach”, Benjamin Alard
Benjamin Alard had knocked us down with his volume 5, Toccatas and fugues. He does no less with this 6th, recorded in Provins on two Hamburg instruments from the collection…
[Critique] «Bach: Sei Solo», Leonidas Kavakos
Those Sei Solo by Leonidas Kavakos confront volume 1 by Frank-Peter Zimmermann (Sonata II, Partitas II and III) at Bis (BIS-2577), published at the same time. Sometimes considered in the…
The Xenakis Centenary Celebrated With Fanfare (and Percussion!) At The Philharmonie De Paris)
He would be 100 (or possibly 101) next May 29. Iannis Xenakis, one of the most spectacular composers of the 1950s and 1970s which saw the triumph of so-called serial…
Benjamin Alard | From Bach to the kilometer ★★½
Why re-engrave what has been immortalized dozens, even hundreds of times on disc? This is an essential question for anyone, like the Frenchman Benjamin Alard, who measures up to monuments…
[Critique] “Jean-Sébastien Bach: Matthäus-Passion”, Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon
This publication is obviously an event, especially since Raphaël Pichon was able to present the work several times in 2021 despite the pandemic. Surrounded by Julian Prégardien as evangelist, and,…
The Orchester de Picardie is preparing an evening of geniuses with Bach and Beethoven on the program
“Two masterpieces of a total difference!”. This is how Arie van Beek qualifies the two compositions selected for this concert Men and Gods. On one side, Symphony No. 5 by…
The Orchester de Picardie is preparing an evening of geniuses with Bach and Beethoven on the program
“Two masterpieces of a total difference!”. This is how Arie van Beek qualifies the two compositions selected for this concert Men and Gods. On one side, Symphony No. 5 by…
Letter from Beijing | Bach Variations
(Beijing) Listening to Thomas Bach torpedo the entourage of the young skater Kamila Valieva, I said to myself: nothing beats a good old Russian controversy to calm the Chinese front.…
Julia MacLaine | Conjugating Bach in present tense ★★★★
The prelude is first, as its name suggests, a piece introducing another. In the Baroque period, it often appeared at the head of instrumental suites or diptychs of the “prelude…
Thomas Bach praises the impact of the Beijing Olympics and defends their “neutrality”
On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Winter Games, the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach tried to brush aside the controversies surrounding the event on…
Thomas Bach | The Beijing Games “will forever change the scale of winter sports”
(Beijing) The Beijing Olympics, which open on Friday, “will forever change the scale of winter sports” by boosting the practice on a global scale, assured Thursday Thomas Bach, the president…
A La Folle Journée Anne Queffelec, Pianist: “I See Schubert A Bit Like A Tightrope Walker Who, On His String, Overhangs The Abyss”
Anne Queffelec is at the crazy day in a somewhat special program, all of Schubert’s works for piano 4 hands, which she shares with the pianist Gaspard Dehaene, her son.…
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Marc-André Hamelin
The year 2022 is off to a strong start! Released on Friday, this double album Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach by Marc-André Hamelin, a logical extension of his Haydn series, once…
Bach Before Bach, C. Siranossian, B. Máté and L. García Alarcón
Perfect complement to our recent Bach overview, this CD highlights the Sonatas for violin and basso continuo BWV 1021 and 1023, the Adagio of the BWV 1024 and the Fugue…