Fulgurant Nelson Goerner au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

By Alain Lompech, 12 June 2022

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“une maîtrise que l'on ne connaît qu'à peu de ses confrères”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 10 June 2022

Chopin, Polonaise no. 7 in A flat major "Polonaise-fantaisie", Op.61

Debussy, Estampes: Pagodes

Debussy, Estampes: La Soirée dans Grenade

Debussy, Estampes: Jardins sous la pluie

Albéniz, Iberia, Bk I: Evocación

Albéniz, Iberia, Bk I: El puerto

Albéniz, Iberia, Bk II: Triana

Schumann, Études symphoniques, Op.13

Nelson Goerner, Piano

Nelson Goerner shines with the CBSO and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody

Robert Gainer, 9th April

The CBSO present the work of three European émigré composers of the 1930s and 40s, who reimagined their musical influences with contrasting approaches and results.

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A pianist for all seasons: Argerich crowns festival with a debut

Mark Pullinger, 30th June

Martha Argerich gives a rare solo performance in the final programme of her festival, performing movements from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons for the very first time.

Michael Volle leads the musical potpourri in Hamburg

Zenaida des Aubris, 29th June

The Martha Argerich Festival minus Martha Argerich on this occasion, but ending with a Russian pièce de résistance.

***11

Jerusalem's International Chamber Music Festival

Alexandra Ivanoff, 3rd September

Where does one go to hear some of the world’s greatest pianists? To Jerusalem. More specifically, the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival, the annual ten-day musical delight in the Holy City in early September.

***11

Nelson Goerner plays Mozart, Schumann and Schubert at Wigmore Hall

Sam Wigglesworth, 11th September

How radical can an exposition repeat be? Well, in the hands of Schubert, very radical indeed, it turns out. The sheer scale of the Molto moderato which opens his final piano sonata means that by the time the opening material returns a huge swathe of time has passed, so much so that each re-encountered phrase is seen in the light of all that happened in the mean time.

**111

The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder: Beethoven 6

Rohan Shotton, 19th January

The Pastoral Symphony is perhaps an optimistic choice for January in Manchester, but for a short while all memory of the deluge outside evaporated in the Bridgewater Hall.Olivier Messiaen’s suite L’Ascension opened the concert with serene, otherworldly modality in a masterfully sculpted brass chorale.

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Alain Lompech

Pendant trente ans, Alain Lompech, né en 1954, a été critique musical et journaliste au Monde de la musique puis au Monde, dont il a été chef des pages « Art et Spectacles » puis chef d'édition, tout en tenant la chronique « Jardins » du quotidien. Il a produit de nombreuses émissions sur France Musique, station dont il a été le directeur adjoint et chef des programmes, et où il est l'un des membres réguliers de « La Tribune des critiques de disques ». Il publie chaque mois des critiques de disques dans le mensuel Diapason. Alain Lompech a publié le premier volume des Grands pianistes du XXe siècle, chez Buchet-Chastel, et travaille à la rédaction du deuxième volume.

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