Karina Canellakis skippers a French voyage

Von Mark Pullinger, 29 Januar 2017

Laden, bitte warten...

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, am 28 Januar 2017

Saint-Saëns, Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 in F-Dur, "Das Ägyptische", Op.103

Debussy, Préludes, Buch 2 Nr.3: La puerta del vino

Debussy, Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Debussy, La Mer

Karina Canellakis, Musikalische Leitung

Cédric Tiberghien, Klavier

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Patrick Maxwell, 20th March

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**111

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Roy Westbrook, 12th January

When did three such luminaries last grace the same concert, let alone the same first half?

*****

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****1

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I suspect that we seek out many of the world’s great soloists beacuse we know what we will get, but we might well seek out Buniatishvili because we don’t.

***11

Last minute replacement fails to dampen enthusiasm

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Valery Gergiev's late withdrawal meant Marios Papadopoulos, music director of the Oxford Philharmonic, stepped into the Russian's shoes.

****1

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Roy Westbrook, 21st January

Fifty years on, Argerich is still the legendary tigress of the keyboard, yet more besides.

****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Karina Canellakis skippers a French voyage with the Oxford Philharmonic