Un cycle de leaders : le Quatuor Modigliani honore Brahms à Évian

By Tristan Labouret, 03 July 2019

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“un exemple de lyrisme à voix égales, porté par un seul souffle”

Reviewed at La Grange au Lac, Evian les Bains on 30 June 2019

Brahms, String Quartet in C minor, Op.51 no.1

Brahms, String Quartet no. 3 in B flat major, Op.67

Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34

Modigliani Quartet

Amaury Coeytaux, Violin

Loïc Rio, Violin

Laurent Marfaing, Viola

François Kieffer, Cello

Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano

A history of feminine music: a starry lineup in Paris

David Karlin, 8th March

Dreisig, Degout, Jaroussky – the cream of French singing puts the history of female composers on show for International Women's Day.

***11

Sublime Schubert at Rencontres Musicales d’Évian

Mark Pullinger, 6th July

The Paris-based Quatuor Modigliani are joined by special guests for an evening of Schubert quintets in Évian-les-Bains.

****1

All-Schumann evening at Wigmore Hall

Nahoko Gotoh, 30th December

An all-Schumann chamber music concert doesn’t come around that often even at the Wigmore Hall, so I was delighted that the Modigliani Quartet presented a programme of his major chamber works with pianist Beatrice Rana.

****1

Replacement player no bar to Modigliani Quartet success

David Larkin, 12th October

To lose a player on the eve of a tour is nothing short of a disaster for a string quartet. However, substitute cellist Christophe Morin fits in well with the rest of the Modigliani Quartet in a revised program in Sydney.

****1

Modigliani Quartet - Wigmore Hall

Sebastian Scotney, 4th July

Modigliani Quartet - HaydnString Quartet in B flat Op. 76 No. 4 'Sunrise' String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 The Quatuor Amedeo Modigliani - Philippe Bernhard, and Loïc Rio, violins, Laurent Marfaing,viola and François Kieffer, 'cello -comes garlanded with prizes.

Le Quatuor Modigliani entre ciel et terre à Radio France

Pierre Michel, 4th April

De Kurtág à Brahms en passant par Beethoven, le quatuor a montré l'étendue de sa technique, définie par une homogénéité parfaite et une écoute mutuelle attentive.

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Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.