Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Glazounov

Un marathon russe sur deux soirées au Victoria Hall aura permis d’entendre un bel éventail de musiques slaves. L’orchestre national russe, sous la direction de Mikhail Pletnev, ressort auréolé d’un beau succès.  

L'âme slave s'est emparée de l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, offrant un écrin magnifique à Frank Peter Zimmermann qui aura offert à entendre une version magistrale du Concerto pour violon n°2 de Chostakovitch. 

The first mixed programme of the new season is led by a stellar cast.

A mixed evening at the Koch Theater, with ABT shining in Ratmansky and a new Twyla Tharp creation, but struggling in Balanchine. 

Whatever your taste in ballet, this program probably had it: Wheeldon's DGV meets Balanchine's Door and a Sigh and Raymonda Variations. 

Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in works by four Russian composers whose UK premieres were all unveiled at the Proms. 

A memorable and important event in the history of British ballet, sensitively and sentimentally performed. 

The Seasons is overstuffed, uneven and way too busy. There are so many steps, but they rarely made me "see the music". It was a frustrating ballet, with so many lovely moments that were less than the sum of its parts.

The venerable Russian maestro and Conductor Laureate led the Philharmonia in an all-Russian programme with sensitive charm, youthful fire, and emotional range, with outstanding soloist Esther Yoo.

A fresh take on timeless classics keeps the interest high in this concert featuring cellist Julian Schwarz and conductor JoAnn Falletta leading the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

Long Yu certainly didn’t rest on his laurels as he powered through Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, while Jian Wang introduced subtlety and deftness in the Rococo Variations.

Burlesque ballet - a wonderful mix of serious, comical, pastiche mixed with envy, self-doubt, rivalry and a swig or two of bourbon... 

Superstar husband-and-wife team, renowned violinist Vadim Repin and "tsarina of the dance" Svetlana Zakharova, go on a date and take us with them. The music fared much better than the ballet.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra and their Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski open their new series "Changing Faces: Stravinsky's Journey" in grand imperial style.

Glazunov's The Seasons is a beautifully wrought and iridescent score, a jewel, a decorative Fabergé-like work of art, stuffed with melodic bonbons. 

Kirill Karabits leads the BSO in music by Glazunov and Tchaikovsky, which prove more appealing that David Fray's Beethoven.

Berlin Philharmonic cellists combine with Turkish counterparts for a dazzling performance in Istanbul.

It’s heartening so see that the state of classical ballet is strong and there are many talented young dancers being nurtured to take their places in the top companies of the world.

Neeme Järvi’s authoritative CSO appearance was grounded by two major scores of Sibelius, preceded by a Prokofiev violin concerto with Vadim Gluzman and a rarely heard work of Glazunov.

A sensational young Japanese violinist and a sensational, little-known Fifth Symphony brought high approval ratings from the audience at a Japan Philharmonic, all-Russian concert last Friday.

Yuri Temirkanov and the Philharmonia deliver exhilarating and sublime Tchaikovsky, while the increasingly impressive Sergey Khachatryan produces a mature and thoroughly absorbing Sibelius Violin Concerto.

La Compañía Nacional de Danza propuso un delicado programa que recorre los puntos fuertes de la agrupación en el Teatro Real, y donde la elección estrella fue In the nigth de Jerome Robbins.

CBSO sparkled in the all Russian programme;  Tchaikovsky' Fifth and the Glazunov Violin Concerto brilliantly delivered, full of oustanding individual performances.

JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Symphony deliver a poetic and powerful Mahler Fifth Symphony, plus a Glazunov Violin Concerto that positively sparkled.

Mixed feelings form the Mariinsky Ballet's first performance of Raymonda in Washington. A shortfall in story-telling and emotional communication despite the polished dancing. 

Olga Smirnova's performance as Raymonda, at the Bolshoi, was nothing short of extraordinary. 

An evening of Adagio cello concertante works in Auckland was enlivened by a stirring Beethoven Fifth. 

The concertmasters of America's top orchestras rival the talents of the world's greatest violinists.  This was proven again in BSO leader Jonathan Carney's thrilling performance of Glazunov's Violin Concerto.

Grammy-nominated Saxophionist Amy Dickson joins the Scottish Ensemble for an intense Russian-themed programme.

This evening’s programme could have been designed to play to Valery Gergiev's strengths in Russian repertoire… yet also displayed characteristic flaws.

Volkov conducts BBC SSO in a Russian retelling, with acclaimed bass, Yuri Vorobiev. 

Soon to retire principal ballerinas, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes, delivered poignant performances in Alexei Ratmansky's Seven Sonatas along with poetic dancing by Joseph Gorak. Other standouts included solist Devon Teuscher in the Raymonda Divertissements and James Whiteside in Fancy Free.

Compelling offerings from Petrenko with the RLPO in romantic works, while Ning Feng dazzles with his poetry and extraordinary tone. 

For whatever reason, performers have always seemed to fear the fourth wall. They are content to let their music speak for itself, and any attempt to address the audience verbally is often considered lowbrow. This makes sense in some regards, as it facilitates the image of performer as master and lends artistic integrity to the music.

Although it was probably arranged via a series of emails between managers, the audience at Prom 41 could have been forgiven for thinking that this was a match made in heaven.

In a pioneering development, the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland have added a new orchestra to its family which now encompasses eight playing groups. There are now three orchestras providing a full development pathway for talented players aged 8 to 25, starting with the Junior Orchestra, through the new Senior Orchestra and culminating in the flagship National Youth Orchestra of Scotland.

Rudolf Nureyev was born in 1938 and died in 1993, making 2013 the 75th anniversary of his birth and the 20th of his death. English National Ballet have cause to be deeply grateful to Nureyev: he gave them (in their previous incarnation as London Festival Ballet) their popular Romeo and Juliet, and lent his box-office appeal as a principal dancer to numerous other productions.

The penultimate programme of The Royal Ballet’s season takes the audience on a journey, from a joyous celebration with seven imperially dressed ballerinas, to a summer dacha filled with tense emotions, and finally back in time to the ceremonial rites of a Russian peasant wedding.

The opening of a brand new concert hall is an incredibly proud event. Community supporters, local celebrities, media representatives and private donors flock to the premiere concert in tuxedos and limousines, doing their best to highlight the importance of such an occasion. More important and certainly more telling, however, is the first concert open to the general public.