Fête des Lumières à l'Auditorium de Lyon : Synesthésie et Correspondances

By Camille Grimaud, 13 December 2016

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“Trois interventions [...] glaçantes d'intensité.”

Reviewed at Auditorium de Lyon: Grand Hall, Lyon on 10 December 2016

Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande, Op.80

Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Alain, Litanies

Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals

Saint-Saëns, Danse macabre

Rachmaninov, The Isle of the Dead, Symphonic poem, Op.29

Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

Mussorgsky, Night on the Bare Mountain

Pierre-Yves Fleury, Organ

Étienne Rochefort, Dancer

Aurélie Sarf, Harp

Roméo Monteiro, Percussion

Text and textures in New York premieres by The Crossing at Zankel Hall

David Wolfson, 24th March

Donald Nally’s much vaunted chamber choir The Crossing give a program of three New York premieres at Zankel Hall.

****1

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th March

At 92NY, the JACK Quartet performs four new works developed in their JACK Studio, including a commissioned premiere from the electrifying Tristan Perich.

****1

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

***11

Chopin and Franck reframed with elegance and insight in Dublin

Andrew Larkin, 20th March

In Dublin, Jean-Luc Tingaud and Louis Lortie bring clarity and purpose to two composers often ill at ease with the orchestra.

****1

Jaap van Zweden and the Seoul Philharmonic’s measured Mahler 6

SangKwon Lee, 19th March

That last movement proves the evening’s true point of reckoning in the Seoul Philharmonic's performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony at Lotte Concert Hall.

****1

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Camille Grimaud

Jeune chanteuse lyrique passionnée de littérature, Camille décide d'unir ses deux amours en écrivant sa joie de la musique. Ancienne étudiante de lettres modernes, la soprano n'a de cesse de convoquer les lettres au service de son art. Complémentarité et éclectisme seraient ses maîtres mots.