« Notre besoin de consolation » : Calixto Bieito au Festival d'Automne

Par Julius Lay, 15 novembre 2019

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“le Heath Quartet impressionne par l'efficacité de son rôle”

Critique faite à Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, le 12 novembre 2019

Ligeti, Quatuor à cordes no. 2

Beethoven, Quatuor à cordes no. 11 en fa mineur, «Serioso», Op.95

Calixto Bieito, Mise en scène

Birmingham Repertory Theatre

Graeme Rose, Récitant

Mairead McKinley, Récitant

Nick Harris, Récitant

Cathy Tyson, Récitant

Heath Quartet

Boy Donne good: Toby Spence at Snape Maltings

Charlotte Valori, 20th June

Spence sounds confident in an evening of Tippett and Britten at Snape, culminating in a spinetingling account of John Donne's Holy Sonnet X.

***11

Luminous Rest: The Tallis Scholars sing Tavener at the Proms

David Fay, 4th August

The Tallis Scholars and the Heath Quartet perform the music of John Tavener at the Royal Albert Hall, on the 100th anniversary of the start of Britain's involvement in the First World War.

*****

Great Expectations not met in Dublin

Cynthia Wilson, 12th June

“My Mother was a stalker”: The target of her affections T.S.Eliot. Great expectstions drew us to his Four Quartets and to one of Beethoven's best during the Music In Great Irish Houses festival.

**111

Heartfelt Schumann and stylish Brahms in Winchester

Katy S. Austin, 4th May

This Winchester Chamber Music Festival programme made a stab at being eclectic, with two sets of early 20th century Webern miniatures to start. Yet the meat was in two substantial Romantic works by Schumann and Brahms.

****1

Heath Quartet sparkles at Winchester’s Discovery Centre

David Truslove, 2nd May

Members of the London Bridge Ensemble and the Heath Quartet enthralled a capacity audience at the Discovery Centre in the fourth event of the Winchester Chamber Music Festival. The main focus this year was Beethoven and Schumann, the music selected to highlight their musical development at specific times in their careers.

****1

Wigmore Hall: Late Tippett

Chris Garlick, 17th January

A revelatory concert at Wigmore Hall of late works by Michael Tippett, featuring exemplary performances by Steven Osborne, Mark Padmore, Craig Ogden and the Heath Quartet.

*****

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Julius Lay

Professeur de formation musicale et de violon à l'Académie Inter-Musicale de Paris, Julius Lay est un musicien éclectique. Etudiant au conservatoire de Marseille, il y obtint son DEM de formation musicale ainsi que son baccalauréat technologique musical (TMD). Il eut son DEM de violon et de musique de chambre -notamment contemporaine- au conservatoire d'Aix-en-Provence. Il est actuellement en classe de composition électroacoustique au CRR de Paris chez Denis Dufour.