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

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

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

Picture postcard Spain from the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

Phil Parker, 17th April

Vibrant, colourful music is played with every last ounce of enthusiasm as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia rounds off its UK tour at Sheffield City 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.