Haydn aux sommets à Verbier

By Thomas Muller, 22 July 2018

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“...projettent le texte royalement, survolent agilement les fugues, dans un délice de timbres”

Reviewed at Salle des Combins, Verbier on 21 July 2018

Haydn, The Creation (Die Schöpfung), Hob XXI:2

Miah Persson, Soprano

Bernard Richter, Tenor

Peter Mattei, Baritone

Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Bass

RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra

Gábor Takács-Nagy, Conductor

Bell, Isserlis and Harding ignite orchestral fireworks in Verbier

Linda Holt, 29th July

On the surface, this Verbier Festival program looked mild (Brahms and Beethoven), but in performance, it had the effect of dropping a lit match into a crate full of fireworks.

*****

A battle of the concertos at the Verbier Festival

Alexander Hall, 27th July

Age sometimes brings compensations: Mischa Maisky's total commitment to the Schumann concerto left Daniel Lozakovich out in the cold with Brahms. Meanwhile Klaus Mäkelä with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra reins back Romantic feeling in Schumann's Second Symphony.

****1

Verbier regulars sow musical joy at Tsinandali Festival

James Imam, 9th September

Playing under its music director Gábor Takács-Nagy, the VFCO radiated joy for music-making; the very thing Verbier – and now Tsinandali – is all about.

****1

The complete Brandenburg Concertos at the Verbier Festival

Simon Thompson, 23rd July

Bach on modern instruments: superbly played but inconsistent

***11

Civilised classics in the Alps

Mark Pullinger, 28th July

There cannot be many more spectacular views enjoyed during a concert interval than that from the terrace of the Salle des Combins, the main venue for the Verbier Festival.

***11

Weder Fisch noch Vogel: Bachs h-Moll-Messe am Verbier Festival

Thomas Schacher, 26th July

Unter der Leitung des Dirigenten Leonardo García-Alarcón präsentieren der Chœur de chambre de Namur, das Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra und ein buntes Solistenquintett eine uneinheitliche Deutung von Bachs Sakralwerk.

***11

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Thomas Muller

Podologue spécialisé en Education Thérapeutique du Patient et Diabétologie, chanteur, administrateur de choeur, fondateur d'orchestre et ancien hautboïste amateur, Thomas est passionné de musique et particulièrement vocale. Toujours sensible aux timbres des orchestres et de la capacité des musiciens de développer un chant musical qui provoque chez l'auditeur une émotion vraie, en dehors de tout intellectualisme.

Haydn aux sommets sous la direction de Gábor Takács-Nagy à Verbier