Le Quatuor Skride au Louvre : une pour toutes, toutes pour une

By Tristan Labouret, 21 April 2019

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“les mousquetaires du Quatuor Skride apportent un panache chambriste qui fait plaisir à voir”

Reviewed at Auditorium du Louvre, Paris on 17 April 2019

Schubert, Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D.487

Suk, Piano quartet in A minor, Op.1

Brahms, Piano Quartet no. 1 in G minor, Op.25

Skride Quartet

Lauma Skride, Piano

Baiba Skride, Violin

Lise Berthaud, Viola

Harriet Krijgh, Cello

Skride Quartet excels at Tanglewood

Edward Sava-Segal, 16th August

A young piano quartet makes an impressive American debut and underlines the non-obvious in standard repertoire.

****1

A pot-pourri of British music in Sydney

Zoltán Szabó, 21st April

This week’s subscription concerts of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra featured only British music that was composed in the last century; three very different works in terms of compositional approach and musical language.

***11

Dreams and nightmares in Gubaidulina world première

Kevin Wells, 24th February

Sofia Gubaidulina has always been drawn to non-traditional sounds, something which invariably landed her in trouble during the Soviet era. The bayan, a 200-button Russian accordion, became the source for many of those sounds in solo and concerted pieces. “It breathes,” she has said, possessing an “earthy quality like no other instrument”.

****1

Transports of Delight: Gimeno and the RLPO tell Exotic Tales

Pamela Nash, 16th October

Harriet Krijgh and Gustavo Gimeno excel in their Liverpool debuts, and the RLPO earn a rapturous reception for a ravishing Scheherazade, destined to remain long in the memory.

*****

Klangwucht und Elegie: Oksana Lyniv und die Grazer Philharmoniker

Isabella Steppan, 21st June

Das Orchester bestach unter der Leitung seiner ehemaligen Chefdirigentin mit der elegischen Uraufführung eines ukrainischen Werks und einer opulenten Symphonie fantastique.

****1

Revelador Slobodeniouk en el fin de temporada de la OSG

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 14th June

La Sinfónica de Galicia cierra la temporada con un intenso viaje desde la música de Sofia Gubaidulina a la Cuarta sinfonía de Brukner, un magnífico y exitoso colofón a un ciclo lleno de momentos inolvidables.

****1

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Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.