ADAM LALOUM BRINGS ALL OF HIS SENSITIVITY TO BEAR ON SCHUBERT’S LAST PIANO SONATAS

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Praised for the poetry and finesse of his playing, the pianist Adam Laloum admirably serves the genius of Schubert during his last evening recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, where he brilliantly performed his three last piano sonatas (February 5 2020). He will renew this…

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ALAIN ALTINOGLU & NORA GUBISCH / PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS

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Dark tunnels, eerie shadows and mysterious doors: Alain Altinoglu conducts the Orchestre de Paris in a programme traversed by the dark forces. After the arranged suite of Pelléas et Mélisande with incredible orchestral refinement, the French conductor joins Alexandre Tharaud in the tragic Ravel’s Concerto…

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THE TRIO MESSIAEN AT THE AUDITORIUM DU LOUVRE

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Famous for his comic operas inspired by Goldoni or Molière, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari has also distinguished himself in the field of chamber music, thanks to a constantly renewed melodic invention. Rewarded in 2018 during the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, the musicians of the Trio Messiaen…

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NEW ALBUM RELEASE: FANNY CLAMAGIRAND | BEETHOVEN & VASKS

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Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is so familiar to us today that it is hard to imagine how the first listeners were confused when they discovered the piece at the time. Quite the opposite of Far Light, the first of two violin concertos by Latvian Pēteris Vasks:…

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Xavier Phillips performs Offenbach in Paris (Salle Gaveau)

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Sometimes we forget that the future composer of La Vie Parisienne and Orphée aux Enfers was an amazing virtuoso of an instrument he had studied in Germany. Nicknamed the “Liszt cello”, Offenbach, during his early years in Paris, was famous in the salons and participated…

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