Sergey et Lusine Khachatryan ou comment se trouver les yeux fermés

By Patrice Lieberman, 18 January 2019

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“Sergey Khachatryan fait fi de toute tentative de séduction et opte pour un dépouillement inattendu”

Reviewed at BOZAR: Main hall, Brussels on 15 January 2019

Mozart, Violin Sonata in B flat major, "Strinasacchi", K454

Prokofiev, Violin Sonata no. 2 in D major, Op.94a

Franck, Violin Sonata in A major

Sergey Khachatryan, Violin

Lusine Khachatryan, Piano

Hrůša returns to Cleveland with a marvelous Eroica

Sam Jacobson, 7th November

Jakub Hrůša led The Cleveland Orchestra in the politically-fraught First Violin Concerto of Shostakovich along with a suitably majestic Beethoven Eroica.

****1

Suk's monumental Asrael Symphony in Cleveland

Timothy Robson, 7th April

Suk's five-movement "dance of death" gets a rare Cleveland outing under guest conductor Jakub Hrůša after Sergey Khachatryan performed Brahms' Violin Concerto.

***11

Water-themed music presents rich diversity

Hilary Stroh, 20th April

Mason Bates' Symphony Liquid Interface takes over the stage in Washington DC.

***11

Khachatryan's Sibelius impresses in Seattle

Erica Miner, 5th November

Sibelius' Violin Concerto remains one of the true tests for violinists, and was performed with great emotional depth in Seattle by young Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan.

***11

Fire in their bellies: Temirkanov and the Philharmonia

Mark Thomas, 20th October

Yuri Temirkanov and the Philharmonia deliver exhilarating and sublime Tchaikovsky, while the increasingly impressive Sergey Khachatryan produces a mature and thoroughly absorbing Sibelius Violin Concerto.

****1

Beguiled by Beethoven and John Luther Adams

Thomas May, 14th November

Ludovic Morlot guest-conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a life-affirming programme pairing classic Beethoven with a contemporary masterpiece by John Luther Adams.

****1

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Patrice Lieberman

Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.