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Kent Nagano a livré une Symphonie n° 3 de Mahler découpée au couteau, avec des moments d'une rare beauté, mais d'autres qui nous laissent davantage sur notre faim.

Sous la direction de Kent Nagano et en compagnie de Marie-Nicole Lemieux, l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal enchaîne les chefs-d'œuvre symphoniques à la Philharmonie, de Jeux au Sacre du printemps.

Concert costaud samedi dernier à la Maison symphonique de Montréal, avec le Concerto pour violon de Dvořák, la Symphonie n° 3 de Brahms et la création de Hunger de la compositrice Zosha Di Castri.

Un concert qui laissera comme une trace lumineuse, un souvenir de joie sans mélange.

La Maison Symphonique de Montréal accueillait mardi le pianiste Marc-André Hamelin et l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, sous la baguette de Kent Nagano, pour un concert intitulé « Haydn & Reich ». Au programme : Eight Lines de Reich, le Concerto en sol de Ravel et la Symphonie n° 104 de Haydn.

Native sons Samy Moussa and Andrew Wan combine their considerable talents for a sensational world premiere of a violin concerto that was commissioned by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg auf den Spuren von Beethoven und Brahms

Über feierliche Orgien und historische Extreme nähern sich Concerto Köln und Kent Nagano nun mit viel Fantasie der romantischen Opernwelt.

Kent Nagano and the forces of Staatsoper Hamburg launch their new season with a production of Shostakovich's very first opera in which the ears are beguiled but the eyes are not.

Kent Nagano leitet einen virtuosen Saisonausklang des Deutschen Symphonie-Orchesters.

Das Philharmonische Staatsorchester widmet sich unter Kent Nagano dem Ende des Schaffens und der Zeit.

Three contrasting 20th-century masterworks were judiciously crafted and insightfully honed by the Orchestre Symphonique of Montreal and their music director Kent Nagano.

Bei seiner Abschiedstournee mit dem Orchestre symphonique de Montréal zeigt Nagano nuancenreiche Interpretationen.

El director californiano Kent Nagano y el pianista francés Jean-Yves Thibaudet se dan cita en l’Auditori barcelonés para llevar a cabo una de las propuestas más esperadas de esta temporada

La Filarmónica de Hamburgo y Kent Nagano se presentaron en Madrid con un programa finamente hilado: dos magníficas composiciones de Brahms y un estreno de Jesús Rueda basado a su vez en una obra del compositor de Hamburgo.

Concerto Köln und Nagano rufen beim Einstand zum gemeinsamen Wagner-Großprojekt einiges hervor: Überraschung, Vorfreude und eine leise Befürchtung im Zeichen der Eingewöhnung.

La OCNE dirigida brillantemente por Nagano y con Sean Panikkar encabezando un sólido reparto vuelven a traer a Madrid The Bassarids la obra maestra de Henze veinte años después.

Kent Nagano und die Münchner Philharmoniker begeistern mit einem modernen Programm, das in der aktuellen unsicheren Weltlage Möglichkeit zur Reflexion geben soll.

The Stockholm Concert Hall hosts the Göteborg Symphonic Orchestra and Opera Chorus for a concert performance of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

An uncompromising approach to the unfinished score of Berg's opera results in a compelling musical and dramatic interpretation.

A musically strong revival of an austere production still leaves one feeling short-changed.

Das Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg unter Nagano feierte bravourös Einstand in der Elbphilharmonie mit der Premiere von Jörg Widmanns Oratorium Arche.

2017 began with a bang in Zurich, thanks to a stellar pianist, Daniil Trifonov, and a peak performance by the Tonhalle Orchestra under Kent Nagano’s seasoned baton.

Kent Nagano and OSM wowed with cerebral approach to Carmina Burana.

The OSM closes out the 2015-16 season with all guns blazing and an ethereal flag of peace in a splendid battle of Britten.

Im Rahmen des zweiten internationalen Musikfestes spielten die Philharmoniker Hamburg unter ihrem Dirigenten Kent Nagano seltener gespielte Werke zweier großer Komponisten.

Catherine Naglestad und Elena Zhidkova brillieren in den weiblichen Hauptrollen von Hector Berlioz' *Les Troyens* neben dem bestens aufgelegten Philharmonischen Staatsorchester Hamburg und seinem Generalmusikdirektor Kent Nagano.

Einen Abend voller wilder Farben und Bilder gestalteten die Göteborger Symphoniker in dieser Woche mit Barbara Hannigan unter Kent Nagano.

The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano give terrific performances of Debussy, Prokofiev and Stravinsky as they embark on their American tour. 

With Mahler’s arrangement of Bach orchestral suites and Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, this concert showcased the many ways that composers have placed musical signatures on their work.

The stark aesthetic contrast between Ives’ Symphony no. 4 and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto no. 1 led to an evening of music that was diverse, challenging and very entertaining.

Mit Beethovens Drittem Klavierkonzert gab Kit Armstrong sein Debüt mit den Göteborger Symphonikern unter Kent Nagano; das durfte auch der Jubilar Sibelius nicht fehlen

Nagano and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal imbued programmatic works with a sense of excitement, sprinkling the magic dust that brought each works’ characters to life.

Kent Nagano and the OSM came up trumps in concert version of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.

Das Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester unter Kent Nagano zeigte an diesem Abend, dass gerade die musikalische und inhaltliche Distanz dieser Werke eine Spannung evozierte, die sie zu einem beeindruckenden Ganzen miteinander verband.

While Glass' latest music has managed to package and sell a form of experimentalism to the masses, it also sparks debate about style versus substance.

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s program was a collage-like display of the diverse music that emerged from composers in New York City from 1936 to 1956. 

Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart favourites and Saint-Saëns' third violin concerto

Swedish soprano Miah Persson dominates the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s enterprising Romantic Lieder program conducted by Kent Nagano.

A substantial musical menu of works by Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz, the poster boys of 19th century Romanticism, along with a world première, presented by l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Marc-André Hamelin and Kent Nagano. 

The OSM opened their 2014 offering with an evening of Beethoven. Kent Nagano was at the helm with pianist Radu Lupu as the soloist in the Fourth Piano Concerto.

The grand finale of this year's Montreal Bach Festival was the Mass in B minor with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano, joined by an impressive set of soloists.

Though museums have long been host to musical events, a partnership between the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with conductor Kent Nagano and Musée des Beaux-arts de Montréal brought art to the concert hall this Wednesday evening.

Joan of Arc endures even today as one of history’s most obsessed-about martyrs. It’s no wonder when you consider that her story is of such uniqueness and potency: a poor, low-born French villager submerged in a war-battered France; it was the Hundred Years’ War, and as a child she witnessed several raids, both military and outlaw, and on one occasion saw her village burned.

Tonight’s OSM concert began introspectively, deep down in the baritone register of Brian Manker’s cello, accompanied warmly by his section and the contrabasses. Rossini’s overture to William Tell is both immediately recognizable and perilously difficult – virtually every section of the orchestra is highlighted, and quite often pushed to technical extremes.

If you like your Beethoven clean, precise and streamlined, you should go hear Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra perform the First and Seventh Symphonies, along with the Berg Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory at the Maison Symphonique.

Carl Dahlhaus called Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem “one of those works in which the 19th century recognized its own identity”. This weighty statement was not only inspired by the great success the work found at its première, but also by the stylistic nature of the music and choice of text.

Christmastime comes with its musical traditions, from sing-along Messiahs to Christmas carols to Mariah Carey singing “All I Want for Christmas is You”. And there’s no denying that shouting any of the above at the top of your lungs will immediately get you into the Christmas spirit.

Kent Nagano took to the stage tonight, microphone in hand, slowly becoming encircled by a forest of empty music stands, 50 in all. It is only natural to provide a word of explanation for a concert which contained Ligeti’s Fluxus piece Poème symphonique, scored for 100 metronomes, and Reich’s Clapping Music, amidst more standard works.

Tonight’s concert was certainly one of the most unusual offered by the OSM in the Maison Symphonique thus far. It is indeed laudable for an orchestra to reach out to newer and younger audiences, and this is one of Kent Nagano’s strengths. Tonight’s presentation of the savage and revolutionary Le Sacre du Printemps alongside a new work for turntables and orchestra attempted to do just that.