New York’s SONIC festival breaks sound barriers

Par Alexandra Ivanoff, 26 octobre 2015

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Critique faite à Roulette, Brooklyn, le 20 octobre 2015

Fear, NY's alright if you like saxophones

Kallmyer, this nest, swift passerine

Tholl, Three Mediations on California Girls

Tholl, corpus callosum

Holter, Endless Song for the End of Summer

Hill, In Memoriam My Liver

Misfits, Where Eagles Dare

McIntosh, Yelling Into the Wind

Deyoe, A New Anxiety

Wild Up

Christopher Rountree, Direction, Direction artistique

Brian Walsh, Saxophone

Archie Carey, Basson

Richard Valitutto, Piano

Jonah Levy, Trompette

Biber’s life of Christ falls on contemporary ears

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd March

Some 350 years after their composition, Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas might not retain their all of their mysteries, but their beauty is eternal.

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Biber’s life of Christ falls on contemporary ears

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd March

Some 350 years after their composition, Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas might not retain their all of their mysteries, but their beauty is eternal.

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Biber’s life of Christ falls on contemporary ears

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd March

Some 350 years after their composition, Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas might not retain their all of their mysteries, but their beauty is eternal.

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Siegfried et l’art du chant au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Pierre Michel, 19th April

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.

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Les bons souvenirs de Julien Chauvin à Deauville

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 18th April

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.

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Berlioz et Mahler subtils à Bozar par le BNO, Schønwandt et Gens

Patrice Lieberman, 17th April

Dans Les Nuits d'été comme dans la Cinquième Symphonie de Mahler, les interprètes ont su souligner le raffinement instrumental de l'écriture sans tomber dans la surenchère sonore.

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Alexandra Ivanoff

Alexandra Ivanoff is an American journalist who, after singing for five seasons with the San Francisco Opera, lived for eight years in Istanbul, where she began her career as a music journalist with Time Out magazine and Today's Zaman newspaper in that city. After one year in Berlin and now in Budapest, she reviews from various cities and festivals in Europe, as well as Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. She has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music in NY and Yale University Graduate School of Music.