Ciento por ciento Mozart

By Maby Muñoz-Hénonin, 05 June 2016

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“La interpretación fue interesante por su diálogo con la orquesta y sus propias cadenzas improvisada”

Reviewed at Palacio de Bellas Artes: Sala Principal, Mexico City on 3 June 2016

Mozart, Symphony no. 27 in G major, K199 (K161b)

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 27 in B flat major, K595

Mozart, Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K543

David Greilsammer, Piano

Geneva Camerata: Balkan fire, tepid Baroque

Mark Pullinger, 19th May

In its Balkan-Baroque! programme, Geneva Camerata – inspired by clarinettist Gilad Harel – really found their groove in a variety of dances from the Balkan regions.

***11

Vivaldi revived at Sommets Musicaux

David Karlin, 31st January

Let's be brutally honest, concertgoers: Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been played to death - recorded by everybody who's anybody. It's been a wonderful old warhorse over the years, but it has been flogged once too often. Can it really be possible, then, to bring this animal back from the dead and rekindle our enthusiasm?

****1

Opera seria brought to life by Zazzo and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra

David Karlin, 8th February

Question: how do you demonstrate to a sceptical audience that baroque opera seria doesn’t have to be boring? To answer this, the organisers of Sommets Musicaux and David Greilsammer, conductor of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra came up with a programme consisting of four Handel arias interspersed with orchestral passages from French baroque opera, these chosen for their variety and dance-based charac

****1

Complots russes à Genève avec le retour de Fedora

Stéphane Lelièvre, 17th December

Le rare opéra de Giordano, inégal mais intéressant, fait son retour dans l'institution genevoise avec un plateau vocal de grande qualité, emmené par le duo Roberto Alagna-Aleksandra Kurzak.

***11

Sandrine Piau, reine de la nuit genevoise

Thomas Muller, 15th March

Sandrine Piau aura émerveillé la nuit genevoise d’un Art du chant totalement intégré à son sens dramatique. La Geneva Camerata accompagnant avec sensibilité la chanteuse de mille délicatesse… Chapeau bas !

***11

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

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Maby Muñoz-Hénonin

Maby estudió una licenciatura en Educación en la Universidad Iberoamericana, así como la licenciatura en Piano y la maestría en Musicología en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Da clases de piano y disfruta tanto hacer, pensar y experimentar la música como hablar y escribir sobre música. Aunque sus gustos e intereses van del barroco al siglo XX y la música académica mexicana, sus mayores debilidades son Brahms y Bach.