Sasha Boldachev à Croissy : le démiurge de la harpe

By Sylvain Gaulhiac, 04 February 2019

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“on ressort de ce concert le regard métamorphosé sur ce bel instrument”

Reviewed at Auditorium Chanorier, Croissy on 27 January 2019

Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565 (scor)

Scorpions, Wind of Change

Brahms, 6 Pieces for Piano: Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 no.2

Boldachev, The Mirrors of Time

Chopin, Étude in A flat major, Op.25 no.1

Chopin, Nocturne no. 19 in E minor, Op.72 no.1

Chopin, Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op.66

Debussy, Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody

Boldachev, Time goes forward

Pärt, Für Alina

Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Capulets

Piazzolla, Libertango

Alexander Boldachev, Harp

Russian Romantics from harpist Alexander Boldachev

David Karlin, 1st February

Alexander Boldachev gives a highly entertaining exploration of Russian music, by way of a battery of harp effects, several of his own devising.

****1

Guerra y paz en el Castillo de Argüeso con Alexander Boldachev

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 9th August

La propuesta Guerra y paz de Alexander Boldachev con obras y transcripciones para arpa además de poesías resultó conmovedora e intensa.

*****

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

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Sylvain Gaulhiac

Sylvain commence l’étude du piano à l’âge de 7 ans. La découverte assez tôt de Debussy et Ravel forge en lui une passion intime pour la musique française qui s’élargira ensuite vers de vastes horizons, telle la musique russe, et notamment Scriabine dont Sylvain est un fervent défenseur. Après un DEM de piano, Sylvain poursuit assidûment la pratique de la musique, sans négliger sa passion pour la littérature et la poésie. Son exigence esthétique l‘oriente également vers les mathématiques. Élève normalien à l’École Normale Supérieure et agrégé de mathématiques, Sylvain poursuit une thèse de géométrie algébrique consacrée à des questions de géométrie anabélienne dans les espaces de Berkovich.