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By Julius Lay, 07 September 2020

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“Peu de concerts font rire autant qu'ils perturbent et captivent”

Reviewed at Centre Pompidou, Paris on 5 September 2020

Saunders, The Mouth (création mondiale)

Schwitters, Ursonte / Sonate in Urlauten (extraits)

Ablinger, Voices and Piano (extraits)

Heidsieck, Vaduz

Bloch, Three Ladies

Juliet Fraser, Soprano

Hervé Sellin, Piano

Jean-Luc Plouvier, Vocals

Michael Schmid, Vocals

Smart, stylish Klangforum Wien residency wraps at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 1st June

Klangforum Wien finishes a far-reaching excursion into the boldest realms of modern music with a flourish.

****1

A Requiem for Peace: Exaudi saves the day at London’s Kings Place

Christopher Woodley, 16th February

A sonorous performance by Exaudi brings to life Eugene Birman's Requiem for Peace, Russia: Today.

***11

Karajan Academy rounds off Musikfest Berlin with Grisey and Neuwirth

Liam Cagney, 18th September

Listening to Grisey's Quatre Chants two decades after its composition, it is clear that he was on a threshold into a new approach to dramatic vocal music.

****1

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.

**111

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

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Julius Lay

Professeur de formation musicale et de violon à l'Académie Inter-Musicale de Paris, Julius Lay est un musicien éclectique. Etudiant au conservatoire de Marseille, il y obtint son DEM de formation musicale ainsi que son baccalauréat technologique musical (TMD). Il eut son DEM de violon et de musique de chambre -notamment contemporaine- au conservatoire d'Aix-en-Provence. Il est actuellement en classe de composition électroacoustique au CRR de Paris chez Denis Dufour.