Une équipe de stars donne le coup d'envoi du Festival de Rosendal

Riddersalen, la salle de concert du Rosendal Chamber Music Festival

James Ehnes et Yeol Eum Son

Roland Pöntinen et Håkan Hardenberger

Leif Ove Andsnes et le Dover Quartet

By Tristan Labouret, 14 August 2023

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“c’est au creux d’un fjord norvégien qu’une dream team s’est réunie pour quatre jours intenses”

Reviewed at Baroniet Rosendal, Rosendal on 10 August 2023

Brahms, Violin Sonata no. 1 in G major, Op.78

Ligeti, Mysteries of the Macabre

Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34

James Ehnes, Violin

Yeol Eum Son, Piano

Håkan Hardenberger, Trumpet

Roland Pöntinen, Piano

Dover String Quartet

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano

Ever-youthful Emanuel Ax celebrates his 70th birthday

Nahoko Gotoh, 25th June

Birthday concerts are strange things. If a hall is going to celebrate your birthday, you'd want to be in the audience and have some of your favourite musicians entertain you.

*****

De l’ombre à la lumière : miracle au Festival de Rosendal

Tristan Labouret, 11th August

Malgré l'annulation de dernière minute d'un musicien souffrant, les artistes du Rosendal Chamber Music Festival ont livré un programme bouleversant de bout en bout.

*****

Sakari Oramo, Yeol Eum Son and the BBC Symphony in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 26th March

Yeol Eum Son’s Britten Piano Concerto formed the evening’s centre of gravity, played with lucid line, structural command and sudden fire. In Brahms’ Second Symphony, Sakari Oramo found conviction, proportion and a warmth that felt earned rather than applied.

****1

Sakari Oramo and Yeol Eum Son summon up vivid landscapes

Christopher Woodley, 13th March

Yeol Eum Son's superb performances of Bartók and Finzi are matched by intense and heady readings of Stravinsky and Weir by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo.

****1

From ice to fire with Ryan Bancroft and the LA Phil

Laurence Vittes, 26th April

Ryan Bancroft leads the LA Phil through Hillborg’s shimmering Sound Atlas, Mozart’s dramatic C minor concerto with Yeol Eum Son, and a fiery, full-throttle performance of Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony.

***11

Classy Brahms ends a fine visit from the Tonkünstler-Orchester

Nick Boston, 13th March

Effortless Brahms and rich Sibelius from Sado and the Tonkünstler-Orchester, with elegant Mozart from Yeol Eum Son at Cadogan Hall.

****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.

Une équipe de stars donne le coup d'envoi du Rosendal Chamber Music Festival