L’âme et la machine : Karol Mossakowski insuffle à l’orgue de Radio France des notes orchestrales

By Suzanne Lay-Canessa, 26 October 2017

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“un toucher d’une émouvante finesse”

Reviewed at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique: Auditorium, Paris on 25 October 2017

Bach, Violin partita no. 2 in D minor, BWV1004 (trans. Henri Messerer)

Mendelssohn, Prelude and fugue in B minor, Op.35 no.3 (trans. Karol Mossakowski)

Wagner, Tannhäuser: Overture (trans. Edwin Henry Lemare)

Rachmaninov, Prelude in C sharp minor for piano, Op.3 no.2 (trans Louis Vierne)

Rachmaninov, Prelude in G minor, Op.23 no.5 (trans. G. H. Federlein)

Liszt, Orpheus (trans. Louis Robilliard)

Chopin, Prélude in E minor, Op.28 no.4 (trans. Franz Liszt)

Liszt, Mephisto Waltz no. 1, "Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke", S 514 (trans. Karol Mossakowski)

Karol Mossakowski, Organ

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Suzanne Lay-Canessa

Docteure en littérature comparée, passionnée de langues, Suzanne a consacré sa thèse de doctorat à Jean-Sébastien Bach. Elle enseigne le français, la littérature et l’histoire de l’Opéra à l’Institute for American Universities et à Sciences Po Aix. Collaboratrice régulière du journal Zibeline, elle publie dans les rubriques Musiques, Livres, Cinéma, Spectacle vivant et Arts Visuels.