Joe Hisaishi et le 3D Orchestra : l'East Land à la Philharmonie

By Julius Lay, 12 February 2019

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“comme une main tendue de l'Orient vers l'Occident”

Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 10 February 2019

Hisaishi, East Land Symphony

Hisaishi, Mládí for piano and strings

Hisaishi, Spirited Away Suite

Ai Ichihara, Soprano

3D Orchestra

Joe Hisaishi, Conductor

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Cameron Kelsall, 25th June

The iconic composer-conductor paired two recent works with a suite from the beloved Spirited Away in a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

***11

Joe Hisaishi’s Spirited Away is a firm favourite in Toronto

Michelle Assay, 20th June

Japan’s leading composer conducted a programme that mixes concert and film music, but it was only the familiar tunes that enthuse the audience.

***11

Patriotic angst with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Thomas Zehetmair

Nick Butters, 24th April

Patriotic Sibelius and early Mendelssohn are served up at the Glasshouse in Gateshead.

***11

Stephen Hough makes a convincing case for Rachmaninov 1 with the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 24th April

On a return visit to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, John Wilson shapes A London Symphony with melancholy sweep.

****1

Sol Gabetta bares her soul in Elgar on Czech Phil tour

Clare Varney, 23rd April

Semyon Bychkov conducts the Czech Phil on their latest European tour with the music of Elgar and Stravinsky.

****1

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

**111

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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.