Glass dans le miroir de Brubaker

By Roland Duclos, 04 February 2017

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“Le miracle Brubaker est d’opérer cette alchimie sans rupture, avec une égale conscience réfléchie.”

Reviewed at Église Saint-Genès-les-Carmes, Clermont-Ferrand on 2 February 2017

Glass, Metamorphosis 2

Glass, Etude 4

Glass, Mad Rush

Glass, Metamorphosis 1

Glass, The Poet Acts

Glass, Metamorphosis 4

Glass, Opening

Glass, Wichita Vortex Sutra

Glass, Metamorphosis 3

Monk, Quarry Waltz

Bruce Brubaker, Piano

Bruce Brubaker plays Alvin Curran at Kings Place

Paul Kilbey, 19th May

Sixteen minutes of mercilessly pummelling the piano keys, alternating shimmering, dissonant chords between right and left hands, as fast as humanly possible or maybe slightly faster. This fleet, beguiling whoosh of texture left the Kings Place audience in no doubt as to Bruce Brubaker’s technical prowess, nor his astonishingly delicate, sensitive touch at the keyboard.

****1

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

Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

Erica Miner, 18th April

The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

****1

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Roland Duclos

Longtemps journaliste dans le Groupe La Montagne Centre-France et plus spécialement attaché au domaine culturel dans toute sa diversité. Avec une forte propension vers la musique classique. Avec la conviction héritée de Bourdieu que tous les arts ne font qu'un pour l'émancipation de l'individu, l'épanouissement de son sens critique et la liberté d'expression sans restriction aucune.