Music for a blue Monday: Leonskaja and the Emersons

Par Mark Pullinger, 31 août 2015

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Critique faite à Cadogan Hall, Londres, le 31 août 2015

Barber, Adagio pour cordes, Op. 11 (Molto adagio)

Debussy, Préludes: Livre 2 (Feux d’artifice)

Chostakovitch, Quintette avec piano en sol mineur, Op.57

Dvořák, Quintette pour piano et cordes no. 2 en la majeur, Op.81 (Scherzo-Furiant)

Elisabeth Leonskaja, Piano

Emerson String Quartet

Le Quatuor Emerson à bout de souffle, Kissin fidèle à lui-même

Julien Hanck, 17th January

Emerson, l’un des très grands quatuors de ces quarante dernières années, ne serait-il plus que l'ombre de ce qu'il était ?

**111

Renée Fleming and friends bid adieu to the Emerson String Quartet

Sam Jacobson, 15th October

In one of their final performances, the Emerson String Quartet comes to Cleveland to present André Previn’s Penelope, featuring Renée Fleming and other special guests.

***11

The Emerson Quartet begins its last series at Lincoln Center

Edward Sava-Segal, 23rd April

In the first leg of a chronological traversal of the string quartet repertoire, the Emersons were on top form.

****1

The Emerson Quartet bid a bleak farewell to London

Stephen Pritchard, 9th November

An elegiac farewell as the Emerson String Quartet – retiring next year – close their Shostakovich cycle at the Southbank Centre.

*****

El Cuarteto Emerson nos sumerge en los abismos de Beethoven y Schubert

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 10th March

De la complejidad estructural de Beethoven a la profunda inspiración melódica de Schubert, el Cuarteto Emerson brilló en todo momento.

****1

The shadows of this life: the Emerson Quartet on tour in Sydney

Zoltán Szabó, 7th September

A disappointing outing for the Emerson String Quartet in the first Sydney concert of their eight-city tour of Australia.

**111

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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.

PCM7 Music for a blue Monday: Leonskaja and the Emerson Quartet play Shostakovich