THE COMPLETE TRIOS OF BEETHOVEN BY XAVIER PHILLIPS, FRANCOIS-FREDERIC GUY ET TEDI PAPAVRAMI

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March 13-15, 2020 at the Cité Musicale in Metz In 2020, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven: an excellent reason to dedicate a highlight. After Haydn, the Cité musicale-Metz programs a composer who might seem so familiar that interpreting it could…

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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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FANNY CLAMAGIRAND PERFORMS SIBELIUS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO WITH THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

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On February 23, 2020, the brilliant violinist Fanny Clamagirand will be the guest of the London Philharmonic Orchestra to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto, or one of the most beautiful pages ever written for the instrument. The Orchestra will be conducted by the young English…

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Adam Laloum | Piano à Lyon

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In a decade, since winning the Clara Haskil Competition in 2009, pianist Adam Laloum has made a name for himself in the international musical landscape. Painter of sounds, poet in the Verlainian sense of the term, he knows how to resonate with works that require…

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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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