Un triomphe pour Muti à Pleyel

Par Constance Clara Guibert, 28 octobre 2014

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“Sans un seul geste, toutes les forces musicales convergent vers Muti”

Critique faite à Salle Pleyel, Paris, le 26 octobre 2014

Tchaïkovski, The Tempest, Symphonic Fantasia in F minor, Op.18

Stravinsky, L'Oiseau de feu (1919 version)

Schumann, Symphonie no. 3 en mi bémol majeur «Rhénane», Op.97

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti, Direction

Riccardo Muti et Chicago, un couple légendaire à la Philharmonie

Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 13th January

Dans un programme « italien » qui associait la création française d'une œuvre de Glass à des partitions de Mendelssohn et Strauss, le chef et l'orchestre ont montré leur singularité.

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Chicago et Muti à la Philharmonie : puissance et robustesse !

Augustin Javel, 17th January

Le Chicago Symphony Orchestra et Riccardo Muti ont montré tout leur savoir-faire dans une soirée Wagner-Hindemith-Dvořák éclatante – quoique parfois clinquante.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra music on death: whimper then bang

Graham Meyer, 9th April

Jakub Hrůša leads the CSO in pedestrian Janáček and Rachmaninov, but Strauss's Four Last Songs and Wagner's Tristan excerpts send audiences home deeply touched.

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Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening

Graham Meyer, 19th February

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Music Director Designate juxtaposes his Finnish countryman's music on their shared national epic, the Kalevala, with the heroic life limned in the tone poem of Richard Strauss.

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Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

Graham Meyer, 4th December

A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.

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Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago

Graham Meyer, 20th November

The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral.

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Constance Clara Guibert

Living in Paris, Constance Clara has studied piano since she was three. A graduate of Toulouse Business School and a student at La Sorbonne in Music Management, she still plays piano, attends orchestral conducting masterclasses, and loves writing. She tweets here and blogs here.

Triomphe paneuropéen à Pleyel pour Riccardo Muti