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

Yeol Eum Son et Roland Pöntinen

Leif Ove Andsnes

Le Dover Quartet, Tabea Zimmermann et Sheku Kanneh-Mason

By Tristan Labouret, 14 August 2023

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“On arrive à l’entracte soufflé par ce qu’on vient de vivre”

Reviewed at Baroniet Rosendal, Rosendal on 11 August 2023

Brahms, Herzlich tut mich verlangen, Op.122 no.9 (arr. Eusebius Mandyezewski)

Pärt, Für Alina

Brahms, Intermezzo in B minor, Op.119 no.1

Berio, Six Encores for piano: Wasserklavier

Pöntinen, Prélude d'automne

Janáček, Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 "From the Street"

Brahms, String Sextet no. 1 in B flat major, Op.18

Yeol Eum Son, Piano

Roland Pöntinen, Piano

Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano

Dover String Quartet

Tabea Zimmermann, Viola

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello

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.

*****

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

Tristan Labouret, 10th August

James Ehnes, Yeol Eum Son, Leif Ove Andsnes, le Dover Quartet, Håkan Hardenberger et Roland Pöntinen ont ouvert cette septième édition consacrée à Johannes Brahms.

***11

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.

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