L’Insula Orchestra à la Seine Musicale : un programme au féminin

By Julius Lay, 19 February 2018

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“Equilbey, maîtresse de l’espace, dirige ses musiciens avec un talent rarement égalé”

Reviewed at La Seine Musicale: Auditorium Patrick Devedjian, Boulogne-Billancourt on 17 February 2018

Beethoven, Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op.56

Farrenc, Symphony no. 3 in G minor, Op.36

Insula orchestra

Laurence Equilbey, Conductor

Alexandra Conunova, Violin

Natalie Clein, Cello

David Kadouch, Piano

Funereal Fauré and Gounod from Equilbey, accentus and Insula

David Karlin, 20th November

Gorgeous French music, polished choral singing and excellent soloists are marred by an overwhelmingly dark timbre and unsympathetic video.

***11

Darkness and light: Equilbey's period Fidelio in concert

Kevin W Ng, 11th May

Laurence Equilbey makes a convincing case for a younger, fresher Fidelio played on period instruments.

****1

Laurence Equilbey and Insula fly the flag for Farrenc in Paris

Mark Pullinger, 8th March

Louise Farrenc bucked the trend by composing symphonies at a time when Paris had turned its back on the symphony.

***11

Weber's Freischütz minus the magic at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Mark Pullinger, 19th October

A disappointing staging of Weber's supernatural opera by Compagnie 14:20 in Paris

**111

Successful resurrection of Farrenc's Third Symphony by Insula Orchestra

Dominic Lowe, 8th March

There's a strong chance that the majority of the audience had never seen Louise Farrenc's Third Symphony before; conductor Laurence Equilbey made a strong case for repeat performances.

****1

Superb Lucio Silla in Vienna

Jonathan Sutherland, 27th April

Early Mozart opera seria triumphs in Vienna’s ‘other house’.

****1

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Julius Lay

Professeur de formation musicale et de violon à l'Académie Inter-Musicale de Paris, Julius Lay est un musicien éclectique. Etudiant au conservatoire de Marseille, il y obtint son DEM de formation musicale ainsi que son baccalauréat technologique musical (TMD). Il eut son DEM de violon et de musique de chambre -notamment contemporaine- au conservatoire d'Aix-en-Provence. Il est actuellement en classe de composition électroacoustique au CRR de Paris chez Denis Dufour.