Sala: Gstaad Chapel

Entre la venue surprise de Federico Gad Crema et le triomphe d'Arthur Hinnewinkel, les jeunes talents invités à clôturer cette semaine de festival à Gstaad ont fait forte impression.

Intelligemment agencé et particulièrement convaincant, le récital du jeune pianiste a été récompensé pour son interprétation de l'œuvre de Camille Pépin.

Ein Münchener Schwesternpaar eröffnet den jungen Reigen junger Talente bei den Sommets Musicaux.

Le premier des jeunes talents présents aux Sommets musicaux 2016 crée L’Étude jazz de Thierry Escaich et séduit la Chapelle de Gstaad. 

Alexander Boldachev gives a highly entertaining exploration of Russian music, by way of a battery of harp effects, several of his own devising.

It’s not common to see a full hour of solo harp music, incorporating music of many types from late Baroque to the 21st century. It has left me far better educated as to the breadth of which this instrument is capable.

Should the performer’s looks and gestures matter, or should purist listeners shut their eyes and use only their ears? In the case of today’s Gstaad chapel piano-four-hands recital by Ani and Nia Sulkhanishvili, there was no question that what you saw formed part of the show.

Question: what’s the connection between South Korea and 19th-century Bohemia? Answer: I have no idea, but there clearly is one, since Korean pianists Jaekyung Yoo and Yoon-Jee Kim play Smetana and Dvořák’s music as if they ingested it with their mothers’ milk.