RAPHAEL SEVERE PERFORMS ITS OWN CLARINET CONCERTO WITH THE ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE BRETAGNE
March 12 and 13, 2020 at the Rennes Opera. As part of a cycle dedicated to Mozart, Raphaël Sévère will be the guest of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne to perform the emblematic Clarinet Concerto in A major under the baton of the young conductor…
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…
FANNY CLAMAGIRAND PERFORMS SIBELIUS’ VIOLIN CONCERTO WITH THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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…
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:…
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…