Nouvelle bande son pour Potemkine

By Elodie Olson-Coons, 09 September 2014

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“La disjonction du son et de l'image a une certaine force en elle-même”

Reviewed at Théâtre Pitoëff, Geneva on 8 September 2014

Schwehr, Le Cuirassé Potemkine

Ensemble Contrechamps

Politics and poetry: Vivier and Stockhausen in Geneva

Elodie Olson-Coons, 18th March

Vivier and Stockhausen's dreams and darkness take centre stage for a night during Geneva's Archipel festival.

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Le théâtre liturgique de Castellucci à la cathédrale de Genève

Romain Daroles, 10th May

Tissant un passionnant fil rouge entre des pièces de Scelsi et le Stabat Mater de Pergolèse, Castellucci recompose un livre d’images et de musique grâce à des tableaux vivants saisissants.

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Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

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Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

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Elodie Olson-Coons

Originaire de Lorraine, Elodie Olson-Coons a fait ses études littéraires à Cambridge. Mezzo-soprano et pianiste, elle est particulièrement intéressée par la musique contemporaine et vocale.

Schwehr compose un Potemkine contemporain