ALAIN ALTINOGLU & NORA GUBISCH / PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS
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…
VICTOR JULIEN-LAFERRIERE AT THE THEATRE DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES ON FEBRUARY 22, 2020
“A weekend of total immersion in the rich, warm sound of the cello in all its guises from Bach to the present day. The second concert features Victor Julien-Laferrière, one of the finest young cellists of the French school with a programme in four sections….
NEW ALBUM RELEASE: FANNY CLAMAGIRAND | BEETHOVEN & VASKS
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:…
Adam Laloum | Piano à Lyon
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…
Xavier Phillips performs Offenbach in Paris (Salle Gaveau)
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…