Vasily Petrenko dégivre Genève par ses charmes !

By Thomas Muller, 15 January 2017

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“grandes courbes, gestes amples, délicats, dessinant de belles arabesques mais néanmoins précises.”

Reviewed at Victoria Hall, Geneva on 12 January 2017

Brahms, Academic Festival Overture, Op.80

Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor for piano and orchestra, Op.43

Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn in B flat major, Op.56a

Elgar, Enigma Variations on an Original Theme for Orchestra, Op.36

Simon Trpčeski, Piano

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Vasily Petrenko, Conductor

Alexis Crouzil, French horn

Jean-Pierre Berry, French horn

Céleste Marie-Roy, Bassoon

Sarah Rumer, Flute

Vincent Gay-Balmaz, Oboe

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Buniatishvili in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 24th March

Jonathan Nott and the OSR bring surgical precision to Debussy’s vivid sketches, while Khatia Buniatishvili’s Brahms evokes the soulful, improvisational warmth of a pre-war piano legend at the Elbphilharmonie.

****1

Bal Impérial & Boléro: multi-layered work challenges in Geneva

Daniel Pratt, 19th November

The premiere of Bal Impérial by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui challenges and interrogates to great effect in Geneva.

****1

Nott shapes a visceral arc with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

SangKwon Lee, 6th July

Fragmentation to ritual: this was no Rite of Spring of two halves but a single, vast architectural crescendo.

****1

Penthouse decadence for a shattering new Salome in Geneva

Mark Pullinger, 22nd January

The Grand Théâtre de Genève is certainly not risk-averse and Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó controversially translates the action to a penthouse bar in New York.

*****

An arthouse staging for Messiaen's testament of beauty in Geneva

Peter Quantrill, 11th April

Installation art sounds a dissonant note with the sublime harmony of Saint François d’Assise in Adel Abdessemed's creation at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.

****1

Justice in Geneva: musically appealing but missing its mark

David Karlin, 22nd January

Director Milos Rau, composer Hèctor Parra and librettist Fiston Mwanza Mujila put the operatic spotlight on the fight for justice after a mining disaster in the DRC, with mixed results.

**111

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Thomas Muller

Podologue spécialisé en Education Thérapeutique du Patient et Diabétologie, chanteur, administrateur de choeur, fondateur d'orchestre et ancien hautboïste amateur, Thomas est passionné de musique et particulièrement vocale. Toujours sensible aux timbres des orchestres et de la capacité des musiciens de développer un chant musical qui provoque chez l'auditeur une émotion vraie, en dehors de tout intellectualisme.