Un triomphe pour Muti à Pleyel

By Constance Clara Guibert, 28 October 2014

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“Sans un seul geste, toutes les forces musicales convergent vers Muti”

Reviewed at Salle Pleyel, Paris on 26 October 2014

Tchaikovsky, The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia in F minor, Op.18

Stravinsky, The Firebird (1919 version)

Schumann, Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Rhenish", Op.97

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti, Conductor

Edward Gardner: quietly impressive in Chicago

Graham Meyer, 7th May

Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs with the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato teem with subtle brilliances.

*****

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

Graham Meyer, 9th April

Jakub Hrůša leads the CSO in pedestrian Janáček and Rachmaninov, but Strauss's Four Last Songs and Wagner's Tristan excerpts send audiences home deeply touched.

***11

Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening

Graham Meyer, 19th February

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Designate juxtaposes his Finnish countryman's music on their shared national epic, the Kalevala, with the heroic life limned in the tone poem of Richard Strauss.

****1

Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

Graham Meyer, 4th December

A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.

*****

Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago

Graham Meyer, 20th November

The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral.

****1

Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut

Graham Meyer, 3rd October

Without a baton, the contemporary-music specialist showcases the Chicago Symphony strings in an intimate program ranging from music of the last decade all the way back to Pergolesi.

****1

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Constance Clara Guibert

Living in Paris, Constance Clara has studied piano since she was three. A graduate of Toulouse Business School and a student at La Sorbonne in Music Management, she still plays piano, attends orchestral conducting masterclasses, and loves writing. She tweets here and blogs here.

Triomphe paneuropéen à Pleyel pour Riccardo Muti