Redécouverte de la musique de chambre au 1901 Arts Club en compagnie du Chaluvier duo

By Nicolas Schotter, 08 February 2016

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“Les musiciens ont semblé tout du long intimidés par un auditoire si restreint.”

Reviewed at 1901 Arts Club, London on 5 February 2016

Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet and piano

Poulenc, Clarinet Sonata in B flat major, FP 184

Ravel, Miroirs

Cavallini, Fiori rossiniani: capriccio for clarinet and piano on Gioachino Rossini’s opera motifs

Michele Colluto, Clarinet

Antonella Margiotta, Piano

Chaluvier duo

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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.

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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

Wrangling the octopus: Mahler’s Ninth with Sir Simon Rattle

Chanda VanderHart, 17th April

Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

****1

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Nicolas Schotter

Ancien élève du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris dans les classes d'Histoire de la musique et d'Esthétique, Nicolas Schotter est ancien éditeur de la version francophone du site Bachtrack. Il continue par ailleurs ses recherches musicologiques sur l'évolution des pratiques musicales liturgiques au XXe siècle.