Houston Symphony’s program starring John Corigliano’s Conjurer: Concerto for Percussionist and String Orchestra and Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé crept through mists.
Juho Pohjonen tackles the Prokofiev First Piano Concerto with real aplomb, but big thrills also come from a "French trio" of compositions by Debussy, Ravel and Florent Schmitt.
Fabien Gabel and the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec present inventive and colorful musical pictures by Schmitt, El-Khoury, Honegger, Zappa and Richard Strauss.
With a Francophile programme of Berlioz, Chopin and Franck, conductor Fabien Gabel had the constant challenge of exploring the orchestra for fresh insights into each of these Romantic works.
On a program with unusually slow tempos in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter gave a cursory performance of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto.
Paris in the springtime: cold winds, driving rain and even a flurry of snow. Tonight, courtesy of Debussy’s Printemps, something a little more seasonal raised the temperature.
In an impressive display of orchestral playing he Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Fabien Gabel gave wonderfully colourful performances of works by Hellstenius, Ravel and Debussy.
Richard Turp sees L’Orchestre symphonique de Québec and conductor Fabien Gabel impress greatly in a program of twentieth century classics by de Falla and Ravel at the Maison symphonique.
Manon was not only central to Jules Massenet’s claim to international celebrity after its creation in 1884, it remains at the heart of the operatic repertoire and Massenet’s popularity today. Manon returned to the stage of L’Opéra de Montréal on 18 May after a lengthy absence to close the company’s 2012/13 season.
Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven: the programme of he Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's most recent Cadogan Hall concert, under the baton of Fabien Gabel, was unashamedly mainstream. The opening item of the programme was the Brahms Tragic Overture. The opening strident chords managed to be agitated yet pensive, interrupted silence hanging in the air as each note dissipated once more.
In the run-up to the departure of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Musical Director Stéphane Denève this summer, it was fitting that an ‘Auld Alliance’ programme of French music was chosen for the orchestra’s spring visit to Perth Concert Hall, complete with French conductor Fabien Gabel.
Au centre du week-end "Love Stories" à la Philharmonie, l'Orchestre de Paris donnait un concert autour de "L’Amour interdit", avec Fabien Gabel à la direction. Au programme Wagner, Strauss, Debussy : de très beaux moments, mais un Don Quichotte un peu en-dessous.
