Récital romantique à Pleyel

By Chloë Richard-Desoubeaux, 14 October 2014

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“La beauté esthétique des pièces est sublimée par les deux musiciens”

Reviewed at Salle Pleyel, Paris on 13 October 2014

Dvořák, Romantic pieces for violin and piano, Op.75

Grieg, Violin Sonata no. 3 in C minor, Op.45

Franck, Violin Sonata in A major

Renaud Capuçon, Violin

Khatia Buniatishvili, Piano

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Buniatishvili in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 24th March

Jonathan Nott and the OSR bring surgical precision to Debussy’s vivid sketches, while Khatia Buniatishvili’s Brahms evokes the soulful, improvisational warmth of a pre-war piano legend at the Elbphilharmonie.

****1

Protests disrupt the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Proms appearance

Dominic Lowe, 29th August

Despite the disruption, the musicians of the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín continue their interesting programme of Sutherland, Dvořák and Tchaikovsky.

***11

Highly individual Mozart from Buniatishvili

Nick Boston, 9th December

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields give exciting performances at the Barbican, with idiosyncratic Mozart from Buniatishvili.

***11

Khatia Buniatishvili in search of her lost fingers

Alain Lompech, 30th October

Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto turns out to be a shipwreck for the Georgian pianist, despite an admirable Orchestre de Paris and conductor (Kirill Karabits).

*1111

Power and personality: Buniatishvili, Märkl, the Taiwan Philharmonic

Alexander Hall, 9th April

Khatia Buniatishvili may divide opinion, but for sheer visceral excitement she's hard to beat. Jun Märkl on tour with the Taiwan Philharmonic at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie impresses in milder ways.

****1

Quirky Rachmaninov from Buniatishvili and the RPO in Atlanta

William E Ford, 15th January

A most idiosyncratic version of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto from Khatia Buniatishvili along with a notable performance of Sibelius' Second Symphony from the RPO, touring the United States under Mark Wigglesworth.

***11

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Chloë Richard-Desoubeaux

Etudiant la musicologie au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, Chloë Richard-Desoubeaux est également co-fondatrice d’un ensemble de musique baroque, l’Ensemble Connexions. Professeur de violon, elle joue aussi de la flûte à bec et s’intéresse particulièrement aux répertoires anciens, du Moyen-Age à l’époque baroque.

Renaud Capuçon et Khatia Buniatishvili à la Salle Pleyel