De la nuit au jour : Mark Padmore et Simon Lepper à La Monnaie

By Valentin Gautron Lavarone, 08 February 2022

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“Padmore déclame avec froideur et sincérité les textes glaçants de James Stephens ou John Masefield”

Reviewed at La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall, Brussels on 7 February 2022

Fauré, Cinq Mélodies de Venise, Op.58 (extraits)

Fauré, La Bonne Chanson, Op.61

Hahn, Sept Chansons grises (extraits)

Britten, This Way to the Tomb (extraits)

Britten, Who are these Children? for tenor and piano, Op.84

Britten, At the mid hour of night

Barber, Bessie Bobtail, Op.2 no.3

Vaughan Williams, The House of life: no. 2 Silent Noon

Finzi, Before and After Summer, Op.16: Channel Firing

Finzi, Fear no more the heat of the sun

Ives, The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Clarke, The Seal Man

Tippett, Songs for Ariel: Full fathom five

Gurney, Sleep

Holst, Betelgeuse

Mark Padmore, Tenor

Simon Lepper, Piano

Patchy recital from La Colla and Katzarava

Dominic Lowe, 10th January

Confusion, lack of subtlety and volume issues beset the first Rosenblatt Recital of the year.

***11

A soul-shaking Winterreise from Mark Padmore and Joseph Middleton

Simon Thompson, 27th June

This year's East Neuk Festival features all three of Schubert's song cycles, but this Winterreise was the one that gripped the heart.

*****

Three British greats headline Duncan Ward's Tonhalle debut

Sarah Batschelet, 31st May

The Zurich Chamber Orchestra gives fine performances of works by three leading 20th-century British composers in Zurich’s Tonhalle.

****1

Compelled to bear witness: the OAE's glorious St John Passion

Roy Westbrook, 26th March

A moving St John Passion from the OAE, with direction shared between Margaret Faultless and tenor Mark Padmore.

*****

The Gospel according to St Mark: Padmore and the OAE in Battersea

Roy Westbrook, 2nd April

This Evangelist had just come straight from Golgotha, where he had witnessed events so momentous he was compelled to recount them at once.

****1

Mark Padmore's Winterreise offers the last word in loneliness

Mark Valencia, 26th June

The British tenor, partnered by Mitsuko Uchida, closed Wigmore Hall’s three-week festival of lunchtime recitals with a peak of the vocal repertoire.

****1

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Valentin Gautron Lavarone

Titulaire d'une Licence de Musique et Musicologie en 2019 à Toulouse, Valentin Gautron Lavarone a commencé la musique avec le saxophone et suivi une formation de musicien d'orchestre. Il entre ensuite au Conservatoire de Toulouse en classe de chant lyrique et poursuit actuellement ses études au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. Musicien éclectique et toujours curieux, Valentin se passionne pour la musique classique et ses interprètes. Très sensible à la musique ancienne, il porte également beaucoup d'affection à la culture romantique et post-romantique germanique, en particulier l'interprétation du lied.