The La Roque-d’Anthéron piano festival – dedicated to all pianos, we should say all keyboards – has resumed its cruising speed after two seasons hampered by the Covid. The evening before last, in the venerable park of Florans, it was Nikolai Lugansky who officiated, the high point of a Russian day which…
Happy Versailles! In a magical place, the Potager du Roi, a series of free concerts for a month, in all areas, from voice to piano, to chamber music, to baroque music. We attended (nearly, the festival ends this weekend!) some great Lessons…
A week of music in different places in the city of Sens. And a young and brilliant cellist as artistic director, Victor Julien-Laferrière, barely 32 years old, who gave three out of five concerts himself. Chronicle of a few days in the heart of summer in a deep and…
Les Arts Florissants were passing through Paris these days, an opportunity to take stock of the young singers recruited, on the occasion of a rare program, two stories of Jephthah by two generations of Italian composers, one, Antonio Draghi, very poorly known. Motets as appetizers A well-chosen setting, “la petite Philharmonie”, ex-Cité…
The bicentenary of César Franck will be on December 10. French composer of Belgian origin, born in Liège, who provides the chronological link between the giant Berlioz and the rich French school of the second half of the 19th century (from Bizet and Saint-Saëns to Debussy) A César Franck whose…
First edition from June 20 to 25 of a new Parisian festival, strange, interesting, within the framework of a famous hospital, that of Pitié-Salpêtrière: from lunchtime to the evening concert various places of this immense establishment resounded with music, either by caregivers or by young people…
Evening of tribute to Nicholas Angelich, very moving, of course, bringing together those of his age and younger people of whom he was the friend, the teacher, the partner. Evening where he should have been present: he was to play this June 9, accompanying as he knew how to do the Russian violinist Vadim Repin. A…
One of the greatest orchestras in the world was in Paris these days, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. In a double program devoted to a single composer, Richard Strauss, more beloved in France by music lovers than by the general public, which undoubtedly justified that the Philharmonie was only…
Two pianists of different generations have released two CDs in recent weeks devoted to piano concertos by Mozart and Mendelssohn: Mozart for Sélim Mazari (concertos 12 and 14), Lars Vogt for Mendelssohn (the two concertos and the brilliant Capriccio, a piece by bravery as its name suggests….
One of the best cellists of the young generation has recorded and performed in concert the absolute monument of cello literature, Bach’s Suites for solo cello. Bruno Philippe, to name him, 28 years old, has already chosen to engrave this fundamental work at an age when very few do it…