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Budapest

15 Jun 2017

Hinreißende Kammermusik von Kodály & Enescu

Von Rolf Kyburz

Optisch spektakulär und musikalisch erst recht: Enescus Oedipe an der Royal Opera

Von David Karlin, 23 Mai 2016

Johan Reuter steht an der Spite der Starbesetzung einer erleuchtenden Interpretation von George Enescus Meisterwerk, gestützt von der spektakulären La Fura dels Baus-Inszenierung-

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London

24 Mai 2016

Enescus Oedipe der Royal Opera

Von David Karlin

München

Rhapsodien: Mariss Jansons, Denis Matsuev und das BRSO

Von David Renke, 08 Oktober 2015

Mariss Jansons und das BRSO widmen zusammen mit Pianist Denis Matsuev einen Abend der Rhapsodie. España ist dabei der Ausgangspunkt für den Abend, bei dem Matsuev nicht vollkommen überzeugen kann.

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München

10 Okt 2015

Jansons dirigiert Rhapsodien

Von David Renke

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Seattle

Smolder and spark: Seattle Chamber Music Society launches its 2025 summer festival

Von Thomas May, 06 Juli 2025

The Seattle Chamber Music Society opens its 2025 summer festival with a program of striking emotional depth, musical refinement and rapturous ensemble connection.

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Seattle

07 Jul 2025

Seattle Chamber Music Society launches its 2025 summer festival

Von Thomas May

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New York City

Echoes of Youth: Octets from the Belcea and Ébène Quartets at Carnegie Hall

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 14 November 2024

A concert of Mendelssohn and Enescu octets which proves that eight can be more than four plus four.

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New York City

16 Nov 2024

Echoes of Youth: the Belcea and Ébène Quartets at Carnegie Hall

Von Edward Sava-Segal

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A game of numbers: Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène play octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu

Von Alexander Hall, 28 Mai 2024

Sometimes you just marvel at the level of musical inspiration and the virtuosic quality of the playing. The two octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu make a very satisfying pairing.

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London

29 Mai 2024

A game of numbers: Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène play octets

Von Alexander Hall

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Un maître en ses œuvres : Louis Lortie rend hommage à Gabriel Fauré Salle Gaveau

Von Alain Lompech, 12 März 2024

Au seuil de l'année du centenaire de la mort de Fauré, le pianiste canadien a livré un récital exceptionnel, aussi riche en sonorités que naturel dans la conduite du discours.

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Paris

15 Mär 2024

Louis Lortie rend hommage à Gabriel Fauré Salle Gaveau

Von Alain Lompech

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Klaus Mäkelä et l’Orchestre de Paris remportent la bataille du Louvre

Von Tristan Labouret, 02 März 2024

Dans le cadre singulier de la salle Le Brun, entre les tableaux monumentaux représentant les batailles d'Alexandre le Grand, le gigantesque Octuor d'Enesco a constitué une expérience spectaculaire forte.

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Paris

04 Mär 2024

Mäkelä et l’Orchestre de Paris remportent la bataille du Louvre

Von Tristan Labouret

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New York City

Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Edgar Moreau make impressive New York Philharmonic debuts

Von Susan Stempleski, 06 Dezember 2023

A Colombian conductor and French cellist shine in a crowd-pleasing program ranging from Haydn to Bartók.

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New York City

09 Dez 2023

Andrés Orozco-Estrada makes impressive New York Phil debut

Von Susan Stempleski

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Les clairs de lune de Pierre-Yves Hodique à La Scala Paris

Von Alain Lompech, 24 November 2023

Dans le cadre intime de La Piccola Scala, le trop méconnu pianiste français a livré un récital renversant, aussi convaincant dans Beethoven que dans Debussy ou dans une création de Fabien Touchard.

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Paris

26 Nov 2023

Les clairs de lune de Pierre-Yves Hodique à La Scala Paris

Von Alain Lompech

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Klaus Mäkelä et le Concertgebouw en majesté pour la clôture du George Enescu Festival

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 24 September 2023

Invité à conclure l'édition 2023 du festival roumain, le chef finnois et l'orchestre hollandais ont proposé un diptyque de concerts contrastés, dont une mémorable Troisième Symphonie de Mahler a constitué le sommet.

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Bucharest

26 Sep 2023

Klaus Mäkelä et le Concertgebouw en majesté à Bucarest

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau

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Le triomphe d'Enesco et de l'Orchestre National de France à Bucarest

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 22 September 2023

Directeur musical du National et du George Enescu Festival, Cristian Măcelaru a dirigé un chef-d'œuvre méconnu, la Troisième Symphonie de Georges Enesco, après un formidable concerto de Rachmaninov par Kirill Gerstein.

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Bucharest

25 Sep 2023

Le triomphe d'Enesco et du National de France à Bucarest

Von Jean-Pierre Rousseau

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes an outstanding Enescu Festival debut

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 19 September 2023

The young cellist excels in Shostakovich with the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Cristian Mandeal.

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Bucharest

20 Sep 2023

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes an outstanding Enescu Festival debut

Von Edward Sava-Segal

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Martha Argerich and Charles Dutoit demonstrate that vitality is ageless at the Enescu Festival

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 18 September 2023

Martha Argerich returns to the Enescu Festival for one of the pillars of her repertory, Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto, in a buoyant performance.

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Bucharest

19 Sep 2023

Argerich and Dutoit demonstrate that vitality is ageless

Von Edward Sava-Segal

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Moravian folk rhythms from Jakub Hrůša and the Vienna Philharmonic at the Enescu Festival

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 11 September 2023

The Suite from Janáček Cunning Little Vixen features in the Vienna Philharmonic's second concert of the 2023 festival.

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Bucharest

12 Sep 2023

Moravian folk rhythms from Jakub Hrůša and the Vienna Philharmonic

Von Edward Sava-Segal

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Lenox

Cristian Măcelaru makes Boston Symphony debut at Tanglewood

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 14 August 2022

In Elgar's Cello Concerto, Yo-Yo Ma displays his gentle expressiveness and magnificent “singing” tone.

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Lenox

15 Aug 2022

Cristian Măcelaru makes Boston Symphony debut at Tanglewood

Von Edward Sava-Segal

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Biel

Le programme autobiographique de Kaspar Zehnder à Bienne

Von Jean Landras, 08 Juni 2022

Pour son concert de fin de mandat, le directeur musical de l'Orchestre Symphonique Bienne Soleure a offert un concert personnel et séduisant au public biennois.

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Biel

17 Jun 2022

Le programme autobiographique de Kaspar Zehnder à Bienne

Von Jean Landras

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Vladimir Jurowski tireless in ebullient Elgar and rare Enescu with the LPO

Von Mark Pullinger, 13 April 2022

Julia Fischer ends her London Philharmonic Orchestra spring residency with Elgar's Violin Concerto and a chamber encore which sees Jurowski turn to the piano.

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London

14 Apr 2022

Jurowski tireless in ebullient Elgar and rare Enescu with the LPO

Von Mark Pullinger

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Buffalo

JoAnn Falletta and the BPO put contemporary concerto on brilliant display

Von Phillip Nones, 18 Februar 2022

A well-known rhapsody and symphony bracket Adolphus Hailstork's 1992 Piano Concerto in an all-around convincing performance featuring exciting soloist Stewart Goodyear.

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Buffalo

18 Feb 2022

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra plays Tchaikovsky, Enescu and Hailstork

Von Phillip Nones

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Zürich

Rousing virtuosity from Julia Fischer and Yulianna Avdeeva at the Tonhalle

Von Sarah Batschelet, 14 November 2021

Two superbly accomplished musicians light up the stage in Zurich with repertoire that spans the centuries.

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Zürich

16 Nov 2021

Rousing virtuosity from Fischer and Avdeeva at the Tonhalle

Von Sarah Batschelet

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Œdipe tragique et lumineux à l'Opéra Bastille

Von Stéphane Lelièvre, 23 September 2021

Permettre au public de redécouvrir une œuvre rare et rassembler toutes les conditions pour que l’entreprise soit un succès : mission accomplie !

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Paris

24 Sep 2021

Œdipe tragique et lumineux à l'Opéra Bastille

Von Stéphane Lelièvre

Berlin

Sophocles as contemporary as ever in Berlin as Œdipe opens at Komische Oper

Von Zenaida des Aubris, 29 August 2021

Leigh Melrose appears in a strong new Œdipe directed by Evgeny Titov to open the 2021-22 season at the Komische Oper.

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Berlin

01 Sep 2021

Sophocles as contemporary as ever as Œdipe opens at Komische Oper

Von Zenaida des Aubris

Enescu rarities revealed by Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO

Von Chris Garlick, 10 Dezember 2020

Vladimir Jurowski has long been a champion of Romanian composer George Enescu's music and his first LPO programme of the season featured two of his rarely heard works.

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London

10 Dez 2020

Enescu rarities revealed by Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO

Von Chris Garlick

Three from ’05: plenty to take away from the LPO’s latest 2020 Visions

Von Matthew Rye, 28 Februar 2020

A rare Enescu symphony makes an appearance in the latest of the LPO’s year-long series exploring works across the centuries.

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London

29 Feb 2020

Three from ’05: plenty to take away from the LPO’s latest 2020 Visions

Von Matthew Rye

Singapore

Jussen brothers shine, excellent Enescu-Beethoven tandem from Singapore Symphony

Von Chang Tou Liang, 22 November 2019

Jussen brothers thrill in Mozart, but a pastoral Enescu-Beethoven tandem proves great programming still exists.

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Singapore

24 Nov 2019

Jussen brothers shine with Singapore Symphony

Von Chang Tou Liang

Salzburg

Song of Destiny: Enescu's Oedipe at the Salzburg Festival

Von Matthew Rye, 14 August 2019

Salzburg's new staging of Enescu's operatic epic Oedipe is a visual and musical triumph.

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Salzburg

15 Aug 2019

Song of Destiny: Enescu's Oedipe at the Salzburg Festival

Von Matthew Rye

A Voyage of Invention: Gabriel Bebeşelea's debut with the RPO

Von Dominic Lowe, 01 Mai 2019

Gabriel Bebeşelea's debut with the RPO brought two composers from his native Romania – George Enescu and Ciprian Porumbescu – and paired them with Mozart and Saint-Saëns in an interesting, albeit patchy concert.

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London

03 Mai 2019

A Voyage of Invention: Bebeşelea's RPO debut

Von Dominic Lowe

Princeton

Kopatchinskaja and Leschenko bring their quest for fresh interpretations to Princeton

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 28 März 2019

There is a very strong bond between two interpreters that approach music with the same unbridled passion

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Princeton

31 Mär 2019

A quest for fresh interpretations

Von Edward Sava-Segal

Le LSO en Images : les aventures de Simon Rattle à la Philharmonie

Von Louise Boisselier, 17 Dezember 2018

Un sans-faute pour le LSO et son chef Simon Rattle, en visite à Paris pour nous conter l’Espagne, la Roumanie et l’Allemagne. À leurs côtés, Leonidas Kavakos réalise une prestation inspirée.

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Paris

19 Dez 2018

Le LSO en Images : les aventures de Simon Rattle à la Philharmonie

Von Louise Boisselier

Humanity, warmth, and excitement in Rattle’s folk music-inspired programme

Von Young-Jin Hur, 16 Dezember 2018

Playing works inspired by folk tunes from Romania, Hungary, France, Spain and England, Rattle pulled off a convincing performance, with Kavakos producing a strong Brahms concerto.

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London

17 Dez 2018

Humanity, warmth, and excitement in a folk music-inspired programme

Von Young-Jin Hur

Lords and ladies of the dance: the LPO and Orozco-Estrada

Von Alexander Hall, 28 November 2018

Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the LPO offer an eclectic and unusual mix of works which, despite commendable playing, never quite added up to a satisfying whole.

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London

29 Nov 2018

Lords and ladies of the dance: the LPO and Orozco-Estrada

Von Alexander Hall

Santander

Fischer y Mahler: colofón en Santander

Von Ramón del Buey Cañas, 25 August 2018

La Orquesta del Festival de Budapest con Iván Fischer al frente presentaron a Enescu, Bartok y Mahler para poner punto final a la 67 edición del Festival de Santander con espíritu celebratorio y una calidad a la altura de lo acontecido anteriormente.

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Santander

26 Aug 2018

Fischer y Mahler: colofón en Santander

Von Ramón del Buey Cañas

Prom 54: Enescu sparks interest, Bartók disappoints, Mahler shows the path to bliss

Von David Karlin, 22 August 2018

Anna Lucia Richter provides a superb finish to a highly romantic Mahler 4 from Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

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London

23 Aug 2018

Prom 54: Bartók disappoints, Mahler sends us to bliss

Von David Karlin

Atlanta

Nikolaj Znaider plays Tchaikovsky with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Von William E Ford, 02 Juni 2018

Cristian Măcelaru joins forces with Nikolaj Znaider in a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

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Atlanta

03 Jun 2018

Nikolaj Znaider plays Tchaikovsky with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Von William E Ford

Restraint and cool ardour from the RPO, Mandeal and Dăriescu

Von Alexander Hall, 28 November 2017

A lot to commemorate but not all that much to celebrate in this concert given by the RPO with the twin Romanian combination of Cristian Mandeal and Alexandra Dăriescu.

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London

29 Nov 2017

Restraint and cool ardour from the RPO

Von Alexander Hall

Du violon avant toute chose : le récital de Maxim Vengerov a séduit Paris

Von Tristan Labouret, 28 September 2017

Ce qui fait de Vengerov l’un des violonistes les plus appréciés de sa génération, c’est la richesse de la palette sonore qu’il parvient à obtenir de son instrument. Retour sur son récital à la Philharmonie.

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Paris

30 Sep 2017

Du violon avant toute chose : le récital de Maxim Vengerov a séduit Paris

Von Tristan Labouret

Kissin dans Bartók ou le vertige du rythme et de la force brute

Von Manuel Gaulhiac, 28 September 2017

Evgeny Kissin dans le deuxième concerto pour piano de Bartók, avec Lawrence Foster à la tête de l'Orchestre national de France. Un engagement et une déterminatin à toute épreuve.

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Paris

02 Okt 2017

Kissin dans Bartók ou le vertige du rythme et de la force brute

Von Manuel Gaulhiac

Beyond pyrotechnics: Maxim Vengerov and Vag Papian at the Enescu Festival

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 24 September 2017

Vengeron and Papian explored what lies under the shiny surface of late 19th century repertoire

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Bucharest

26 Sep 2017

Beyond pyrotechnics: Maxim Vengerov in Bucharest

Von Edward Sava-Segal

Complex Oedipus: Enescu’s ambitious only opera opens the LPO season

Von Matthew Rye, 23 September 2017

The London Philharmonic’s concert performance of Enescu’s Oedipe proves an extravagant but triumphant way to launch the orchestra’s new Royal Festival Hall season.

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London

24 Sep 2017

Enescu’s ambitious only opera opens LPO season

Von Matthew Rye

Misha Maisky à Bucarest : attentes et déboires

Von Sylvain Gaulhiac, 21 September 2017

Au programme de ce "concert de minuit" du festival Enescu : Misha Masky et la Philharmonie de chambre de Saint-Pétersbourg dans des pièces d'Enescu, Tchaïkovsky, Bruch et Mendelssohn. Concert assez mitigé, avec un orchestre qui manque de caractère et un violoncelliste qui malgré toutes ses qualités indéniables manque de justesse.

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Bucharest

26 Sep 2017

Misha Maisky à Bucarest : attentes et déboires

Von Sylvain Gaulhiac

Inside and outside the comfort zone: Dutoit leads Argerich and the RPO

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 12 September 2017

Few other pianists have Argerich’s naturalness, her ability to epitomize the essence of music rather than interpret it.

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Bucharest

14 Sep 2017

Inside and outside the comfort zone: Dutoit leads Argerich and the RPO

Von Edward Sava-Segal

RNO and Andreescu impress with MacMillan and Tchaikovsky at Enescu Festival

Von Aksel Tollåli, 05 September 2017

Following some rhythmically challenged Ginastera, Horia Andreescu and the Russian National Orchestra impress with confidently played MacMillan and Tchaikovsky.

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Bucharest

08 Sep 2017

RNO and Andreescu impress at Enescu Festival

Von Aksel Tollåli

Withheld indulgence: Russian National Orchestra and Pletnev disappoint in Enescu and Prokofiev

Von Aksel Tollåli, 04 September 2017

The muscular piano playing of Nikolai Lugansky could not save the Russian National Orchestra’s shoddy Enescu and Prokofiev.

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Bucharest

07 Sep 2017

RNO and Pletnev disappoint in Enescu and Prokofiev

Von Aksel Tollåli

A blazing Oedipe kicks off Bucharest’s Enescu Festival

Von Aksel Tollåli, 02 September 2017

Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO gave a stunning performance of Enescu’s operatic masterpiece, despite a dramatically limp concert staging.

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Bucharest

04 Sep 2017

A blazing Oedipe kicks off Bucharest’s Enescu Festival

Von Aksel Tollåli

Berlin

A concert of two halves from Iván Fischer and the Berliner Philharmoniker

Von Hugo Shirley, 26 Oktober 2016

A fascinating first-half juxtaposition of Enescu and Bartók is followed by a strangely unconvincing take on Mozart's “Prague” Symphony.

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Berlin

27 Okt 2016

A concert of two halves from Iván Fischer

Von Hugo Shirley

Vancouver

Bohemian flair: Cristian Măcelaru and the Vancouver Symphony

Von Kevin W Ng, 01 Oktober 2016

Cristian Măcelaru and the Vancouver Symphony offer an imperfect yet charismatic journey through Central Europe in works by Dvořák, Brahms, and Enescu.

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Vancouver

03 Okt 2016

Bohemian flair: Cristian Măcelaru and the Vancouver Symphony

Von Kevin W Ng

Geneva

Maxim Vengerov et Roustem Saïtkoulov au sommet de la musicalité à Genève

Von Thomas Muller, 29 Februar 2016

Maxim Vengerov et Roustem Saïtkoulov ont proposé au public genevois un programme qui, tel un diamant exceptionnel, a été serti somptueusement, offrant un style adéquat à chaque pièce, rehaussant l’éclat du tout d’une musicalité impériale. Toute critique du détail, en reviendrait à perdre la vision d’un tout magistral.

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