Sunny intervals quell stormy Beethoven

Par Mark Pullinger, 30 novembre 2014

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“Despite the stormy turbulence in much of the writing, they allowed the sunlight to flood in”

Critique faite à Wigmore Hall, Londres, le 30 novembre 2014

Beethoven, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano no. 1 en fa majeur, Op.5 no. 1

Beethoven, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano no. 2 en sol mineur, Op.5 no. 2

Beethoven, Sept variations pour violoncelle et piano sur "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", WoO 46

Beethoven, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano no. 3 en la majeur, Op.69

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Violoncelle

Alexander Melnikov, Piano

Schumann clivant : Isabelle Faust & co à la Philharmonie

Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut, 7th November

Retour sur une approche radicale – qui passe certainement mieux au disque que dans une salle qui ne lui est pas taillée sur mesure – dans laquelle on aura pu apprécier l'excellence des interprètes.

***11

Captivante intégrale Beethoven

Luce Zurita, 1st December

Dans le cadre de leur actualité discographique, Jean-Guihen Queyras et Alexander Melnikov donnaient l'intégrale des oeuvres pour violoncelle et piano de Beethoven lors de deux récitals consécutifs à Londres.

*****

Bach sheds light in an impressively dark outing from the ACO

Nick Boston, 21st March

Energetic commitment from the ACO at the Barbican, with precision and edge from Alexander Melnikov and Jeroen Berwaerts in an evening of darkness and light.

****1

Energetic Scottish Symphony lifts a weighty evening with the LPO

Nick Boston, 20th January

Ponomarchuk and the LPO raise the spirits in Felix Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony after an underwhelming first half at the Brighton Dome.

***11

Aimez-vous Rachmaninov? Alexander Melnikov at Musikfest Berlin

Elena Luporini, 27th August

Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov is joined on stage at the Philharmonie by Alexander Rudin, Nadezhda Pavlova and Olga Pashchenko to give the audience a taste of Rachmaninov's chamber repertoire.

****1

Mixed performances in Ligeti and Mozart from Les Siècles

David Truslove, 20th August

Three concertos and a symphony made for an unusual but generous programme, but Les Siècles illustrate that versatility can come with mixed blessings.

***11

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Queyras and Melnikov: Sunny intervals quell stormy Beethoven