Metamorphoses of a 20 year-old string quartet: the Goldner Quartet in Sydney

At one point in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, the narrator is listening to a sonata for piano and violin by the fictional Vinteuil, when “at a certain moment, without being able to distinguish any clear outline, or to give a name to what was pleasing him, suddenly enraptured, he tried to grasp the phrase or harmony – he did not know which – that had just been played and that had opened and expa

The noted Beethoven pianist Artur Schnabel was famously interested only in music that he felt was “better than it can be performed”. This idea of works which transcend any individual performance seems particularly true when it comes to Beethoven’s late string quartets, enigmatic masterpieces which continue to pose challenges to interpreters nearly two centuries after they were written.

Malgré le choix étonnant de l'amplification des voix qui restera une énigme pendant toute la soirée, le programme révèle les charmes d'une musique rarement donnée avenue Montaigne.

Une formidable équipe de jeunes musiciens a livré un passionnant concert russe (Rachmaninov-Schnittke-Tchaïkovski) dont le point d'orgue fut le lumineux Sextuor « Souvenir de Florence » de Tchaïkovski.

Pour ce troisième volet du Ring proposé en version de concert par Yannick Nézet-Séguin et l'Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam, c'est le plateau vocal qui brille avant tout, éclipsant l'orchestre et le chef.

Pour ouvrir la 30e édition de la manifestation deauvillaise, le violoniste et chef du Concert de la Loge a proposé un excellent triptyque Bach-Telemann-Pergolèse qui faisait allusion à des souvenirs normands.