Harmonie et légèreté pour le « voyage musical » de l’Opéra de Nice

By Manon Decroix, 21 May 2019

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“On s’enthousiasme pour le subtil mariage entre le timbre rond de l’alto et la suavité de la harpe”

Reviewed at Opéra de Nice, Nice on 20 May 2019

Bax, Elegiac Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp

Britten, Lachrymae for viola and strings, Op.48b

Works by Freidlin

Works by Taki

Shankar, L'Aube Enchantee on the Raga Todi

Ravel, Sonatine en trio

Isabelle Demourioux, Flute

Magali Prévot, Viola

Helvia Briggen, Harp

Jurowski marks Hans Werner Henze’s centenary at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 31st May

Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin deliver a lean, razor-sharp exploration of captivity and survival, balancing Beethoven’s and Brahms’ structural clarity against the devastating, high-fidelity distortion of Henze’s Ninth Symphony.

****1

Kissin, Bell and Isserlis: remembrance and loss at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 31st May

Solomon Rosowsky, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky form a matinee programme whose deeper connections gradually came into focus.

****1

Mischievous Pan at Hong Kong Sinfonietta’s French May

Christopher Halls, 30th May

French clarinettist Raphaël Sévère unearths beauty in Nielsen’s concerto and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta impress in two settings of Pan’s antics at the French May Festival.

****1

Alsop conducts a substitute Marsalis symphony at Carnegie Hall

David Wolfson, 29th May

The premiere of Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony no. 5 is postponed, substituted by selections from his Jungle Symphony, along with a disappointing Beethoven’s Seventh at Carnegie Hall.

***11

It's a hero's life for Gustavo Dudamel at Disney Hall

Néstor Castiglione, 29th May

Dudamel closes in on the end of his Disney Hall tenure in heroic style with Richard Strauss' tone poem, Ein Heldenleben.

****1

An azure secret: Yunchan Lim’s star power at Wigmore Hall

Asher Rubenstein, 29th May

The Korean pianist astonishes in Schubert and Scriabin, in a performance sure to be a highlight of Wigmore Hall’s 125th anniversary festivities.

*****

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Manon Decroix

Titulaire d'un master de musicologie (Université Nice Côte d’Azur), Manon mène des recherches dans le but d’améliorer la compréhension du poème symphonique romantique. Altiste et professeur d’éducation musicale, elle participe à de nombreux projets de recherche, radiophoniques et pédagogiques en France et à Monaco. Elle se passionne pour les interprétations historiquement informées.