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Les sextuors contrastés du Quatuor Belcea avec Tabea Zimmermann et Jean-Guihen Queyras à Anvers

By Patrice Lieberman, 12 May 2024
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“La perfection technique d’une équipe de si haut niveau va de soi”
Reviewed at De Singel: Blue Hall, Antwerp on 11 May 2024
Programme
Brahms, String Sextet no. 1 in B flat major, Op.18
Brahms, String Sextet no. 2 in G major, Op.36
Performers
Tabea Zimmermann, Viola
Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello
Belcea Quartet
Corina Belcea, Violin
Suyeon Kang, Violin
Krzysztof Chorzelski, Viola
Antoine Lederlin, Cello
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Patrice Lieberman
Patrice Lieberman
Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.